Part 3: How we get there (example game)

Warning

The tutorial game is under development and is not yet complete, nor tested. Use the existing lessons as inspiration and to help get you going, but don’t expect out-of-the-box perfection from it at this time.

Beginner Tutorial Parts

• Introduction
  Getting set up.

• Part 1: What we have
  A tour of Evennia and how to use the tools, including an introduction to Python.

• Part 2: What we want
  Planning our tutorial game and what to think about when planning your own in the future.

• Part 3: How we get there
  Getting down to the meat of extending Evennia to make our game

• Part 4: Using what we created
  Building a tech-demo and world content to go with our code

• Part 5: Showing the world
  Taking our new game online and let players try it out

In part three of the Evennia Beginner tutorial we will go through the actual creation of our tutorial game EvAdventure, based on the Knave RPG ruleset.

This is a big part. You’ll be seeing a lot of code and there are plenty of lessons to go through. Take your time!

If you followed the previous parts of this tutorial you will have some notions about Python and where to find and make use of things in Evennia. We also have a good idea of the type of game we will create.

Even if this is not the game-style you are interested in, following along will give you a lot of experience using Evennia and be really helpful for doing your own thing later!

Fully coded examples of all code we make in this part can be found in the evennia/contrib/tutorials/evadventure package.

Lessons

• 1. Code structure and Utilities
  • 1.1. Folder structure
  • 1.2. Enums
  • 1.3. Utility module
  • 1.4. Testing
  • 1.5. Summary
• 2. Rules and dice rolling
  • 2.1. Summary of Knave rules
  • 2.2. Making a rule module
  • 2.3. Rolling dice
  • 2.4. Testing
  • 2.5. Summary
• 3. Player Characters
  • 3.1. Inheritance structure
  • 3.2. Living mixin class
  • 3.3. Character class
  • 3.4. Connecting the Character with Evennia
  • 3.5. Unit Testing
  • 3.6. About races and classes
  • 3.7. Summary
• 4. In-game Objects and items
  • 4.1. New Enums
  • 4.2. The base object
  • 4.3. Other object types
  • 4.4. Consumables
  • 4.5. Weapons
  • 4.6. Magic
  • 4.7. Armor
  • 4.8. Your Bare hands
  • 4.9. Testing and Extra credits
• 5. Handling Equipment
  • 5.1. EquipmentHandler that saves
  • 5.2. Connecting the EquipmentHandler
  • 5.3. Expanding the Equipmenthandler
  • 5.4. .validate_slot_usage
  • 5.5. .add and .remove
  • 5.6. Moving things around
  • 5.7. Get everything
  • 5.8. Weapon and armor
  • 5.9. Extra credits
  • 5.10. Unit Testing
  • 5.11. Summary
• 6. Character Generation
  • 6.1. How it will work
  • 6.2. Random tables
  • 6.3. Storing state of the menu
  • 6.4. Initializing EvMenu
  • 6.5. Main Node: Choosing what to do
  • 6.6. Node: Changing your name
  • 6.7. Node: Swapping Abilities around
  • 6.8. Node: Creating the Character
  • 6.9. Tying the nodes together
  • 6.10. Conclusions
• 7. In-game Rooms
• 8. Non-Player-Characters (NPCs)
• 9. Game Quests
• 10. In-game Shops
• 11. Dynamically generated Dungeon
• 12. In-game Commands