Part 2: What We Want

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 Part Two of the Evennia Beginner Tutorial, we’ll take a step back to plan the type of tutorial game that you will create. This part is more ‘theoretical’ in that we won’t do any hands-on programming.

In the process, we’ll address the common questions of “where to start” and “what to think about” when creating a multiplayer online text game.

Lessons

• 1. Where do I begin?
  • 1.1. What is your motivation for doing this?
  • 1.2. What are your skills?
  • 1.3. So, where do I begin, then?
  • 1.4. Conclusions
• 2. On Planning a Game
  • 2.1. The steps
  • 2.2. Planning
  • 2.3. Coding and Tech demo
  • 2.4. World Building
  • 2.5. Alpha Release
  • 2.6. Beta Release/Perpetual Beta
  • 2.7. Congratulate yourself!
  • 2.8. Planning our tutorial game
• 3. Planning our tutorial game
  • 3.1. Game concept
  • 3.2. Administration
  • 3.3. Building
  • 3.4. Systems
  • 3.5. Rooms
  • 3.6. Objects
  • 3.7. Characters
  • 3.8. Conclusions