<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>
<sectionid="official-evennia-resources">
<h2>Official Evennia resources<aclass="headerlink"href="#official-evennia-resources"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://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://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="https://evennia.blogspot.com/">Evennia development blog</a> - Musings from the lead developer.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/evennia/evennia">Evennia on GitHub</a> - Download code and read documentation.</p></li>
<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>
</ul>
</section>
<sectionid="evennia-community">
<h2>Evennia Community<aclass="headerlink"href="#evennia-community"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://games.evennia.com/">Evennia Game Index</a> - An automated listing of Evennia games.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://discord.gg/AJJpcRUhtF">Evennia official Discord channel</a></p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/evennia/evennia/discussions">Evennia official forums</a> on Github Discussions.</p></li>
<h2>Third-party Evennia tools<aclass="headerlink"href="#third-party-evennia-tools"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/InspectorCaracal/evennia-things/tree/main/discord_relay">Discord relay</a> - Two-way chat relays between Evennia channels and Discord channels.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/gtaylor/evennia-docker">docker-compose for Evennia</a> - A quick-install setup for running Evennia in a <aclass="reference external"href="https://www.docker.com/">Docker container</a>. (See <aclass="reference external"href="https://www.evennia.com/docs/latest/Running-Evennia-in-Docker.html">the official Evennia docs</a> for more details on running Evennia with Docker.)</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/taladan/Pegasus/blob/origin/world/utilities/evcolor">Evcolor</a> - Optional coloration for Evennia unit-test output.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/vincent-lg/evennia-wiki">Evennia-wiki</a> - An Evennia-specific Wiki for your website.</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="https://www.topmudsites.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4804">RPI</a>-style Evennia games.</p></li>
<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://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/evennia-plugin">Unreal Engine Evennia plugin</a> an in-progress Unreal plugin for integrating Evennia with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.</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="https://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/FlutterSprite/coolbattles">The world of Cool battles sources</a> - Open source turn-based battle system for an older version of Evennia.</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>
</ul>
</section>
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<sectionid="evennia-based-projects">
<h2>Evennia-Based Projects<aclass="headerlink"href="#evennia-based-projects"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<h3>Code bases<aclass="headerlink"href="#code-bases"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<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="https://play.arxmush.org/">Arx</a> Evennia game. <aclass="reference external"href="https://www.evennia.com/docs/1.0-dev/Howtos/Arxcode-Installation.html">Here are instructions for installing</a></p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/whitehorse-io/encarnia">Encarnia sources</a> - An open-sourced game dir for an older version of 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/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/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>
</ul>
</section>
<sectionid="other">
<h3>Other<aclass="headerlink"href="#other"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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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><aclass="reference external"href="https://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="https://people.csail.mit.edu/karthikn/pdfs/mud-play15.pdf">PDF</a>) - MIT research paper using Evennia to train AIs.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
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<sectionid="general-mu-resources">
<h2>General MU* resources<aclass="headerlink"href="#general-mu-resources"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<sectionid="tools">
<h3>Tools<aclass="headerlink"href="#tools"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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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 Python objects.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<sectionid="informational">
<h3>Informational<aclass="headerlink"href="#informational"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://tharsis-gate.org/articles/imaginary.html">Imaginary Realities unofficial archive</a> - An e-magazine on game and MUD design that has several articles about Evennia.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://www.hayseed.net/MOO/">Lost Library of MOO</a> - Archive of scientific articles on mudding (in particular moo).</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://mud-dev.wikidot.com/">Mud-dev wiki</a> - A (very) slowly growing resource on MUD creation.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://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.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?bbsubject_id=5959">Nick Gammon’s hints thread</a> - Contains a very useful list of things to think about when starting your new MUD.</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>
</section>
<sectionid="community">
<h3>Community<aclass="headerlink"href="#community"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://grapevine.haus/">Grapevine</a> - MUD listings and inter-game chat network</p></li>
<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.mudbytes.net/">MudBytes</a> - MUD listing and forums</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="http://www.mudconnect.com/">MudConnector</a> - MUD listing and forums</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://www.siafoo.net/article/52">Python tips and tricks</a></p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://hyperskill.org/onboarding?track=python">Jetbrains Python academy</a> - free online programming curriculum for different skill levels</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<sectionid="blogs">
<h3>Blogs<aclass="headerlink"href="#blogs"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://lostgarden.home.blog/">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="https://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>
</ul>
</section>
<sectionid="literature">
<h3>Literature<aclass="headerlink"href="#literature"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
