Tutorials and Howto’s

Beginner Tutorial

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See the documentation about the Evennia core Components and important Concepts.

Recommended starting point! This will take you from absolute beginner to making a small but full game with Evennia. Other tutorials and howto’s tend to assume you are already familiar with the concepts explained in the Beginning tutorial.

Note

Part 3 and onwards are still under development.

• Beginner Tutorial
  • Things you need
    • A Command line
    • A MUD client
    • A text Editor or IDE
    • A fresh game dir?
• Part 1: What we have
  • Lessons
    • 1. Using commands and building stuff
    • 2. The Tutorial World
    • 3. Intro to using Python with Evennia
    • 4. Overview of your new Game Dir
    • 5. Introduction to Python classes and objects
    • 6. Overview of the Evennia library
    • 7. Making objects persistent
    • 8. Adding custom commands
    • 9. Parsing Command input
    • 10. Creating things
    • 11. Searching for things
    • 12. Advanced searching - Django Database queries
    • 13. Building a chair you can sit on
• Part 2: What we want
  • Lessons
    • 1. Where do I begin?
    • 2. On Planning a Game
    • 3. Planning our tutorial game
• Part 3: How we get there (example game)
  • Lessons
    • 1. Code structure and Utilities
    • 2. Rules and dice rolling
    • 3. Player Characters
    • 4. In-game Objects and items
    • 5. Handling Equipment
    • 6. Character Generation
    • 7. In-game Rooms
    • 8. Non-Player-Characters (NPCs)
    • 9. Game Quests
    • 10. In-game Shops
    • 11. Dynamically generated Dungeon
    • 12. In-game Commands
• Part 4: Using what we created
  • Lessons
    • 1. Unimplemented
• Part 5: Showing the world
  • Lessons
    • 1. Add a simple new web page

Howto’s

• Adding a Command Prompt
• Adding Command Cooldowns
• Commands that take time to finish
• Return custom errors on missing Exits
• Give objects weight
• NPCs that listen to what is said
• NPCs reacting to your presence
• NPC merchants
• Building a giant mech
• Building a train that moves

Systems

• Making a Persistent object Handler
• Changing game calendar and time speed
• Adding Weather messages to a Room
• Adding room coordinates to your game
• Show a dynamic map of rooms

Web-related tutorials

Some of these will likely move into the Beginner tutorial later.

• Changing the Game Website
• Add a wiki on your website
• Web Character Generation
• Web Character View Tutorial
• Help System Tutorial
• Extending the REST API
• Automatically Tweet game stats

Deep-dives

• Parsing command arguments, theory and best practices
• Understanding Color Tags
• Evennia for roleplaying sessions
• Evennia for Diku Users
• Evennia for MUSH Users
• Using the Arxcode game dir

Old tutorials

These will be replaced by the Beginner Tutorial, but remain here until that is complete.

• Implementing a game rule system
• Turn based Combat System
• Tutorial for basic MUSH like game