<h1>Links<aclass="headerlink"href="#links"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p><em>A list of resources that may be useful for Evennia users and developers.</em></p>
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<h2>Official Evennia links<aclass="headerlink"href="#official-evennia-links"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://www.evennia.com">evennia.com</a> - Main Evennia portal page. Links to all corners of Evennia.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/evennia/evennia">Evennia github page</a> - Download code and read documentation.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=evennia&uio=MT1mYWxzZSY5PXRydWUmMTE9MTk1JjEyPXRydWUbb">Evennia official chat channel</a> - Our official IRC chat #evennia at <aclass="reference external"href="http://irc.freenode.net:6667">irc.freenode.net:6667</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://groups.google.com/group/evennia">Evennia forums/mailing list</a> - Web interface to our
google group.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://evennia.blogspot.se/">Evennia development blog</a> - Musings from the lead developer.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://readthedocs.org/projects/evennia/">Evennia’s manual on ReadTheDocs</a> - Read and download
offline in html, PDF or epub formats.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://games.evennia.com/">Evennia Game Index</a> - An automated listing of Evennia games.</p></li>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://www.openhub.net/p/6906">Evennia on Open Hub</a></p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://openhatch.org/projects/Evennia">Evennia on OpenHatch</a></p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Evennia-MUD-Server/">Evennia on PyPi</a></p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Evennia/">Evennia subreddit</a> (not much there yet though)</p></li>
<h2>Third-party Evennia utilities and resources<aclass="headerlink"href="#third-party-evennia-utilities-and-resources"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p><em>For publicly available games running on Evennia, add and find those in the <aclass="reference external"href="http://games.evennia.com">Evennia game
index</a> instead!</em></p>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://discord.gg/NecFePw">Discord Evennia channel</a> - This is a fan-driven Discord channel with
a bridge to the official Evennia IRC channel.</p></li>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://discordapp.com/channels/517176782357528616/517176782781415434">Discord live blog</a> of the
<em>Blackbirds</em> Evennia game project.</p></li>
<li><p>an in-progress Unreal plugin for integrating Evennia with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/thedarknet/evennia">The dark net/March Hare MUD</a> from the 2019 <aclass="reference external"href="https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-27/dc-27-index.html">DEF CON
27</a> hacker conference in Paris. This is an
Evennia game dir with batchcode to build the custom <em>Hackers</em> style cyberspace zone with puzzles and
challenges <aclass="reference external"href="https://dcdark.net/home">used during the conference</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/Arx-Game/arxcode">Arx sources</a> - Open-source code release of the very popular
<aclass="reference external"href="http://play.arxmush.org/">Arx</a> Evennia game. [Here are instructions for installing](Arxcode-
installing-help)</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/vincent-lg/evennia-wiki">Evennia-wiki</a> - An Evennia-specific Wiki for your
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/aurorachain/paxboards">Paxboards</a> - Evennia bulletin board system (both for
telnet/web).</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/whitehorse-io/encarnia">Encarnia sources</a> - An open-sourced game dir for
Evennia with things like races, combat etc. <aclass="reference external"href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MUD/comments/6z6s3j/encarnia_an_evennia_python_mud_code_base_with/">Summary
here</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/FlutterSprite/coolbattles">The world of Cool battles sources</a> - Open source
turn-based battle system for Evennia. It also has a <aclass="reference external"href="http://wcb.battlestudio.com/">live demo</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/cluebyte/nextrpi">nextRPI</a> - A github project for making a toolbox for people
to make <aclass="reference external"href="http://www.topmudsites.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4804">RPI</a>-style Evennia games.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/muddery/muddery">Muddery</a> - A mud framework under development, based on an
older fork of Evennia. It has some specific design goals for building and extending the game based
on input files.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/amfl/vim-evennia">vim-evennia</a> - A mode for editing batch-build files (<codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">.ev</span></code>)
files in the <aclass="reference external"href="http://www.vim.org/">vim</a> text editor (Emacs users can use <aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/evennia/evennia/blob/master/evennia/utils/evennia-mode.el">evennia-
mode.el</a>).</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/search?p=1&q=evennia">Other Evennia-related repos on github</a></p></li>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyYMNttpc-SX1hvaqlUNmcxrhmM64pQXl">EvCast video series</a> -
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/gtaylor/evennia-docker">Evennia-docker</a> - Evennia in a <aclass="reference external"href="https://www.docker.com/">Docker
container</a> for quick install and deployment in just a few commands.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://www.evenniacn.com/">Evennia’s docs in Chinese</a> - A translated mirror of a slightly older
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://musoapbox.net/topic/1150/evennia-for-mushers">Evennia for MUSHers</a> - An article describing
Evennia for those used to the MUSH way of doing things.</p></li>
<li><p><em><aclass="reference external"href="http://news.mit.edu/2015/learning-language-playing-computer-games-0924#_msocom_1">Language Understanding for Text games using Deep reinforcement
learning</a></em>
(<aclass="reference external"href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/karthikn/pdfs/mud-play15.pdf">PDF</a>) - MIT research paper using Evennia
<h2>Other useful mud development resources<aclass="headerlink"href="#other-useful-mud-development-resources"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/ctoth/area_reader">ROM area reader</a> - Parser for converting ROM area files to
<h2>General MUD forums and discussions<aclass="headerlink"href="#general-mud-forums-and-discussions"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://mudcoders.com/">MUD Coder’s Guild</a> - A blog and <aclass="reference external"href="https://slack.mudcoders.com/">associated Slack
channel</a> with discussions on MUD development.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://www.musoapbox.net/">MuSoapbox</a> - Very active Mu* game community mainly focused on MUSH-
type gaming.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://journal.imaginary-realities.com/">Imaginary Realities</a> - An e-magazine on game and MUD
design that has several articles about Evennia. There is also an <aclass="reference external"href="http://disinterest.org/resource/imaginary-realities/">archive of older
issues</a> from 1998-2001 that are still very
relevant.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://optionalrealities.com/">Optional Realities</a> - Mud development discussion forums that has
regular articles on MUD development focused on roleplay-intensive games. After a HD crash it’s not
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://www.mudconnect.com/">MudConnector</a> - Mud listing and forums</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://www.mudbytes.net/">MudBytes</a> - Mud listing and forums</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://www.topmudsites.com/">Top Mud Sites</a> - Mud listing and forums</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://planet-muddev.disinterest.org/">Planet Mud-Dev</a> - A blog aggregator following blogs of
current MUD development (including Evennia) around the ‘net. Worth to put among your RSS
subscriptions.</p></li>
<li><p>Mud Dev mailing list archive (<aclass="reference external"href="http://www.disinterest.org/resource/MUD-Dev/">mirror</a>) -
Influential mailing list active 1996-2004. Advanced game design discussions.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://mud-dev.wikidot.com/">Mud-dev wiki</a> - A (very) slowly growing resource on MUD creation.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://cryosphere.net/mud-protocol.html">Mud Client/Server Interaction</a> - A page on classic MUD
telnet protocols.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://gc-taylor.com/blog/2013/01/08/mud-tech-funcool-dont-forget-ship-damned-thing/">Mud Tech’s fun/cool but …</a> - Greg Taylor gives good advice on mud design.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://www.hayseed.net/MOO/">Lost Library of MOO</a> - Archive of scientific articles on mudding (in
Contains a very useful list of things to think about when starting your new MUD.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://www.lostgarden.com/">Lost Garden</a> - A game development blog with long and interesting
articles (not MUD-specific)</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://whatgamesare.com/">What Games Are</a> - A blog about general game design (not MUD-specific)</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://thealexandrian.net/">The Alexandrian</a> - A blog about tabletop roleplaying and board games,
but with lots of general discussion about rule systems and game balance that could be applicable
also for MUDs.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://www.raphkoster.com/games/laws-of-online-world-design/the-laws-of-online-world-design/">Raph Koster’s laws of game design</a> - thought-provoking guidelines and things to think about
when designing a virtual multiplayer world (Raph is known for <em>Ultima Online</em> among other things).</p></li>
</ul>
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<h2>Literature<aclass="headerlink"href="#literature"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<li><p>Richard Bartle <em>Designing Virtual Worlds</em> (<aclass="reference external"href="http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Virtual-Worlds-Richard-Bartle/dp/0131018167">amazon page</a>) - Essential reading for the design of any persistent game
world, written by the co-creator of the original game <em>MUD</em>. Published in 2003 but it’s still as
relevant now as when it came out. Covers everything you need to know and then some.</p>
<p>When the rights to Designing Virtual Worlds returned to him, Richard Bartle made the PDF of his Designing Virtual Worlds freely available through his own website (<aclass="reference external"href="https://mud.co.uk/dvw/">Designing Virtual Worlds</a>). A direct link to the PDF can be found <aclass="reference external"href="https://mud.co.uk/richard/DesigningVirtualWorlds.pdf">here</a>.</p>
programming curriculum for different skill levels</p></li>
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<h2>Credits<aclass="headerlink"href="#credits"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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