Part 1: What We Have

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 consider when planning your own.

• Part 3: How We Get There
  Getting down to the meat of extending Evennia to make your 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 letting players try it out.

In this first part, we’ll focus on what we have out of the box with Evennia. We’ll familiarize you with the tools and how to find things that you are looking for. We will also dive into some of the things you’ll need to know to utilize the system fully, including giving you a brief rundown of Python concepts. If you are an experienced Python programmer, some sections may feel a bit basic – yet seeing things in the context of Evennia will still be worthwhile.

Lessons

• 1. Using Commands and Building Stuff
  • 1.1. Getting Help
  • 1.2. Looking Around
  • 1.3. Stepping Down from Godhood
  • 1.4. Creating an Object
  • 1.5. Get a Personality
  • 1.6. Pushing Your Buttons
  • 1.7. Making Yourself a House
  • 1.8. Reshuffling the World
  • 1.9. Adding a Help Entry
  • 1.10. Adding a World
• 2. The Tutorial World
  • 2.1. Gameplay
  • 2.2. Once you are done (or had enough)
  • 2.3. Uninstall the tutorial world
• 3. Intro to using Python with Evennia
  • 3.1. Evennia Hello world
  • 3.2. Making some text ‘graphics’
  • 3.3. Importing code from other modules
  • 3.4. Sending text to others
  • 3.5. Parsing Python errors
  • 3.6. Passing arguments to functions
  • 3.7. Finding others to send to
  • 3.8. Multi-line py
  • 3.9. Other ways to test Python code
  • 3.10. ipython
  • 3.11. Conclusions
• 4. Overview of your new Game Dir
  • 4.1. commands/
  • 4.2. server/
• 5. Introduction to Python classes and objects
  • 5.1. Importing things
  • 5.2. On classes and objects
  • 5.3. Summary
• 6. Overview of the Evennia library
  • 6.1. Where is it?
  • 6.2. An example of exploring the library
  • 6.3. Conclusions
• 7. Making objects persistent
  • 7.1. Our first persistent object
  • 7.2. Typeclasses
  • 7.3. Modifying ourselves
  • 7.4. Extra Credits
  • 7.5. Conclusions
• 8. Adding custom commands
  • 8.1. Creating a custom command
  • 8.2. Summary
• 9. Parsing Command input
  • 9.1. More advanced parsing
  • 9.2. Adding a Command to an object
  • 9.3. Adding the Command to a default Cmdset
  • 9.4. Replace a default command
  • 9.5. Summary
• 10. Creating things
  • 10.1. Creating Objects
  • 10.2. Creating Rooms, Characters and Exits
  • 10.3. Creating Accounts
  • 10.4. Creating Channels
  • 10.5. Creating Scripts
  • 10.6. Conclusion
• 11. Searching for things
  • 11.1. Searching using Object.search
  • 11.2. Main search functions
  • 11.3. Understanding object relationships
  • 11.4. What can be searched for
  • 11.5. Summary
• 12. Advanced searching - Django Database queries
  • 12.1. Queryset field lookups
  • 12.2. Let’s get that werewolf …
  • 12.3. Queries with OR or NOT
  • 12.4. Annotations
  • 12.5. F-objects
  • 12.6. Grouping and returning only certain properties
  • 12.7. Conclusions
• 13. Building a chair you can sit on
  • 13.1. Make us not able to move while sitting
  • 13.2. Making the Chair itself
  • 13.3. Adding commands
  • 13.4. Conclusions