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*A list of resources that may be useful for Evennia users and developers.*
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## Official Evennia links
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## Official Evennia resources
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- [evennia.com](https://www.evennia.com) - Main Evennia portal page. Links to all corners of Evennia.
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- [Evennia github page](https://github.com/evennia/evennia) - Download code and read documentation.
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- [Evennia official chat
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channel](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=evennia&uio=MT1mYWxzZSY5PXRydWUmMTE9MTk1JjEyPXRydWUbb)
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- Our official IRC chat #evennia at irc.freenode.net:6667.
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- [Evennia forums/mailing list](https://groups.google.com/group/evennia) - Web interface to our
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google group.
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- [Evennia development blog](https://evennia.blogspot.com/) - Musings from the lead developer.
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- [Evennia's manual on ReadTheDocs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/evennia/) - Read and download
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offline in html, PDF or epub formats.
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- [Evennia Game Index](http://games.evennia.com/) - An automated listing of Evennia games.
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----
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- [Evennia development blog](https://evennia.blogspot.com/) - Musings from the lead developer.
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- [Evennia on GitHub](https://github.com/evennia/evennia) - Download code and read documentation.
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- [Evennia on Open Hub](https://www.openhub.net/p/6906)
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- [Evennia on OpenHatch](https://openhatch.org/projects/Evennia)
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- [Evennia on PyPi](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Evennia-MUD-Server/)
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- [Evennia subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Evennia/) (not much there yet though)
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## Third-party Evennia utilities and resources
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## Evennia Community
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*For publicly available games running on Evennia, add and find those in the [Evennia game
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index](http://games.evennia.com) instead!*
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- [Evennia Game Index](http://games.evennia.com/) - An automated listing of Evennia games.
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- [Evennia official Discord channel](https://discord.gg/AJJpcRUhtF)
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- [Evennia official forums](https://github.com/evennia/evennia/discussions) on Github Discussions.
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- [Evennia subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Evennia/)
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- [Discord Evennia channel](https://discord.gg/NecFePw) - This is a fan-driven Discord channel with
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a bridge to the official Evennia IRC channel.
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## Third-party Evennia tools
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---
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- [Discord live blog](https://discordapp.com/channels/517176782357528616/517176782781415434) of the
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_Blackbirds_ Evennia game project.
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- [Unreal Engine Evennia plugin](https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/evennia-plugin)
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an in-progress Unreal plugin for integrating Evennia with Epic Games' Unreal Engine.
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- [The dark net/March Hare MUD](https://github.com/thedarknet/evennia) from the 2019 [DEF CON
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27](https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-27/dc-27-index.html) hacker conference in Paris. This is an
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Evennia game dir with batchcode to build the custom _Hackers_ style cyberspace zone with puzzles and
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challenges [used during the conference](https://dcdark.net/home#).
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- [Arx sources](https://github.com/Arx-Game/arxcode) - Open-source code release of the very popular
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[Arx](https://play.arxmush.org/) Evennia game. [Here are instructions for installing](Arxcode-
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installing-help)
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- [Evennia-wiki](https://github.com/vincent-lg/evennia-wiki) - An Evennia-specific Wiki for your
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website.
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- [Evcolor](https://github.com/taladan/Pegasus/blob/origin/world/utilities/evcolor) - Optional
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coloration for Evennia unit-test output.
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- [Paxboards](https://github.com/aurorachain/paxboards) - Evennia bulletin board system (both for
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telnet/web).
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- [Encarnia sources](https://github.com/whitehorse-io/encarnia) - An open-sourced game dir for
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Evennia with things like races, combat etc. [Summary
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here](https://www.reddit.com/r/MUD/comments/6z6s3j/encarnia_an_evennia_python_mud_code_base_with/).
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- [The world of Cool battles sources](https://github.com/FlutterSprite/coolbattles) - Open source
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turn-based battle system for Evennia. It also has a [live demo](http://wcb.battlestudio.com/).
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- [nextRPI](https://github.com/cluebyte/nextrpi) - A github project for making a toolbox for people
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to make [RPI](https://www.topmudsites.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4804)-style Evennia games.
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- [Muddery](https://github.com/muddery/muddery) - A mud framework under development, based on an
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older fork of Evennia. It has some specific design goals for building and extending the game based
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on input files.
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- [vim-evennia](https://github.com/amfl/vim-evennia) - A mode for editing batch-build files (`.ev`)
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files in the [vim](https://www.vim.org/) text editor (Emacs users can use [evennia-
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- [Discord relay](https://github.com/InspectorCaracal/evennia-things/tree/main/discord_relay) - Two-way chat relays between Evennia channels and Discord channels.
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- [docker-compose for Evennia](https://github.com/gtaylor/evennia-docker) - A quick-install setup for running Evennia in a [Docker container](https://www.docker.com/). (See [the official Evennia docs](https://www.evennia.com/docs/latest/Running-Evennia-in-Docker.html) for more details on running Evennia with Docker.)
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- [Evcolor](https://github.com/taladan/Pegasus/blob/origin/world/utilities/evcolor) - Optional coloration for Evennia unit-test output.
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- [Evennia-wiki](https://github.com/vincent-lg/evennia-wiki) - An Evennia-specific Wiki for your website.
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- [nextRPI](https://github.com/cluebyte/nextrpi) - A github project for making a toolbox for people to make [RPI](https://www.topmudsites.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4804)-style Evennia games.
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- [Paxboards](https://github.com/aurorachain/paxboards) - Evennia bulletin board system (both for telnet/web).
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- [Unreal Engine Evennia plugin](https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/evennia-plugin) an in-progress Unreal plugin for integrating Evennia with Epic Games' Unreal Engine.
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- [vim-evennia](https://github.com/amfl/vim-evennia) - A mode for editing batch-build files (`.ev`) files in the [vim](https://www.vim.org/) text editor (Emacs users can use [evennia-
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mode.el](https://github.com/evennia/evennia/blob/master/evennia/utils/evennia-mode.el)).
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- [The world of Cool battles sources](https://github.com/FlutterSprite/coolbattles) - Open source turn-based battle system for an older version of Evennia.
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- [Other Evennia-related repos on github](https://github.com/search?p=1&q=evennia)
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----
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- [EvCast video series](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyYMNttpc-SX1hvaqlUNmcxrhmM64pQXl) -
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Tutorial videos explaining installing Evennia, basic Python etc.
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- [Evennia-docker](https://github.com/gtaylor/evennia-docker) - Evennia in a [Docker
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container](https://www.docker.com/) for quick install and deployment in just a few commands.
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- [Evennia's docs in Chinese](http://www.evenniacn.com/) - A translated mirror of a slightly older
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Evennia version. Announcement [here](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/evennia/3AXS8ZTzJaA).
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- [Evennia for MUSHers](https://musoapbox.net/topic/1150/evennia-for-mushers) - An article describing
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Evennia for those used to the MUSH way of doing things.
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- *[Language Understanding for Text games using Deep reinforcement
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learning](http://news.mit.edu/2015/learning-language-playing-computer-games-0924#_msocom_1)*
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([PDF](https://people.csail.mit.edu/karthikn/pdfs/mud-play15.pdf)) - MIT research paper using Evennia
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to train AIs.
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## Other useful mud development resources
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## Evennia-Based Projects
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- [ROM area reader](https://github.com/ctoth/area_reader) - Parser for converting ROM area files to
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Python objects.
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- [Gossip MUD chat network](https://gossip.haus/)
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### Code bases
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- [Arx sources](https://github.com/Arx-Game/arxcode) - Open-source code release of the very popular [Arx](https://play.arxmush.org/) Evennia game. [Here are instructions for installing](https://www.evennia.com/docs/1.0-dev/Howtos/Arxcode-Installation.html)
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- [Encarnia sources](https://github.com/whitehorse-io/encarnia) - An open-sourced game dir for an older version of Evennia with things like races, combat etc. [Summary here](https://www.reddit.com/r/MUD/comments/6z6s3j/encarnia_an_evennia_python_mud_code_base_with/).
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- [The dark net/March Hare MUD](https://github.com/thedarknet/evennia) from the 2019 [DEF CON 27](https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-27/dc-27-index.html) hacker conference in Paris. This is an Evennia game dir with batchcode to build the custom _Hackers_ style cyberspace zone with puzzles and challenges [used during the conference](https://dcdark.net/home#).
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- [Muddery](https://github.com/muddery/muddery) - 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.
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## General MUD forums and discussions
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### Other
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- [MUD Coder's Guild](https://mudcoders.com/) - A blog and [associated Slack
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channel](https://slack.mudcoders.com/) with discussions on MUD development.
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- [MuSoapbox](https://www.musoapbox.net/) - Very active Mu* game community mainly focused on MUSH-type gaming.
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- [Imaginary Realities](http://journal.imaginary-realities.com/) - An e-magazine on game and MUD
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design that has several articles about Evennia. There is also an
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[archive of older issues](http://disinterest.org/resource/imaginary-realities/)
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from 1998-2001 that are still very relevant.
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- [Optional Realities](http://optionalrealities.com/) - Mud development discussion forums that has
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regular articles on MUD development focused on roleplay-intensive games. After a HD crash it's not
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as content-rich as it once was.
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- [MudLab](http://mudlab.org/) - Mud design discussion forum
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- [MudConnector](http://www.mudconnect.com/) - Mud listing and forums
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- [MudBytes](http://www.mudbytes.net/) - Mud listing and forums
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- [Top Mud Sites](http://www.topmudsites.com/) - Mud listing and forums
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- [Planet Mud-Dev](http://planet-muddev.disinterest.org/) - A blog aggregator following blogs of
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current MUD development (including Evennia) around the 'net. Worth to put among your RSS
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subscriptions.
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- Mud Dev mailing list archive ([mirror](http://www.disinterest.org/resource/MUD-Dev/)) -
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Influential mailing list active 1996-2004. Advanced game design discussions.
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- [Discord live blog](https://discordapp.com/channels/517176782357528616/517176782781415434) of the _Blackbirds_ Evennia game project.
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- [Evennia for MUSHers](https://musoapbox.net/topic/1150/evennia-for-mushers) - An article describing Evennia for those used to the MUSH way of doing things.
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- *[Language Understanding for Text games using Deep reinforcement learning](http://news.mit.edu/2015/learning-language-playing-computer-games-0924#_msocom_1)*
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([PDF](https://people.csail.mit.edu/karthikn/pdfs/mud-play15.pdf)) - MIT research paper using Evennia to train AIs.
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----
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## General MU* resources
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### Tools
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- [ROM area reader](https://github.com/ctoth/area_reader) - Parser for converting ROM area files to Python objects.
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### Informational
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- [Imaginary Realities unofficial archive](http://tharsis-gate.org/articles/imaginary.html) - An e-magazine on game and MUD design that has several articles about Evennia.
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- [Lost Library of MOO](https://www.hayseed.net/MOO/) - Archive of scientific articles on mudding (in particular moo).
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- [Mud Client/Server Interaction](http://cryosphere.net/mud-protocol.html) - A page on classic MUD telnet protocols.
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- [Mud-dev wiki](http://mud-dev.wikidot.com/) - A (very) slowly growing resource on MUD creation.
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- [Mud Client/Server Interaction](http://cryosphere.net/mud-protocol.html) - A page on classic MUD
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telnet protocols.
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- [Mud Tech's fun/cool but ...](https://gc-taylor.com/blog/2013/01/08/mud-tech-funcool-dont-forget-ship-damned-thing/) -
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Greg Taylor gives good advice on mud design.
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- [Lost Library of MOO](https://www.hayseed.net/MOO/) - Archive of scientific articles on mudding (in
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particular moo).
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- [Nick Gammon's hints thread](http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?bbsubject_id=5959) -
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Contains a very useful list of things to think about when starting your new MUD.
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- [Lost Garden](http://www.lostgarden.com/) - A game development blog with long and interesting
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articles (not MUD-specific)
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- [What Games Are](http://whatgamesare.com/) - A blog about general game design (not MUD-specific)
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- [The Alexandrian](https://thealexandrian.net/) - A blog about tabletop roleplaying and board games,
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but with lots of general discussion about rule systems and game balance that could be applicable
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also for MUDs.
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- [Raph Koster's laws of game design](https://www.raphkoster.com/games/laws-of-online-world-design/the-laws-of-online-world-design/) -
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thought-provoking guidelines and things to think about when designing a virtual multiplayer world
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(Raph is known for *Ultima Online* among other things).
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- [Mud Tech's fun/cool but ...](https://gc-taylor.com/blog/2013/01/08/mud-tech-funcool-dont-forget-ship-damned-thing/) - Greg Taylor gives good advice on mud design.
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- [Nick Gammon's hints thread](http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?bbsubject_id=5959) - Contains a very useful list of things to think about when starting your new MUD.
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- [Raph Koster's laws of game design](https://www.raphkoster.com/games/laws-of-online-world-design/the-laws-of-online-world-design/) - thought-provoking guidelines and things to think about when designing a virtual multiplayer world (Raph is known for *Ultima Online* among other things).
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## Literature
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### Community
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- [Grapevine](https://grapevine.haus/) - MUD listings and inter-game chat network
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- [MUD Coder's Guild](https://mudcoders.com/) - A blog and [associated Slack channel](https://slack.mudcoders.com/) with discussions on MUD development.
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- [MudBytes](http://www.mudbytes.net/) - MUD listing and forums
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- [MudConnector](http://www.mudconnect.com/) - MUD listing and forums
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- [MudLab](http://mudlab.org/) - MUD design discussion forum
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- [MuSoapbox](https://musoapbox.net/) - MU* forum mainly focused on MUSH-type gaming.
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- [Top Mud Sites](http://www.topmudsites.com/) - MUD listing and forums
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## General Game-Dev Resources
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### Tools
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- [GIT](https://git-scm.com/)
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- [Documentation](https://git-scm.com/documentation)
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- [Learn GIT in 15 minutes](https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1) (interactive tutorial)
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### Frameworks
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- [Django's homepage](https://www.djangoproject.com/)
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- [Documentation](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en)
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- [Code](https://code.djangoproject.com/)
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- [Twisted homepage](https://twistedmatrix.com/)
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- [Documentation](https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/index.html)
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- [Code](https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser)
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### Learning Python
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- [Python Website](https://www.python.org/)
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- [Documentation](https://www.python.org/doc/)
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- [Tutorial](https://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html)
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- [Library Reference](https://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html)
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- [Language Reference](https://docs.python.org/ref/ref.html)
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- [Python tips and tricks](https://www.siafoo.net/article/52)
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- [Jetbrains Python academy](https://hyperskill.org/onboarding?track=python) - free online programming curriculum for different skill levels
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### Blogs
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- [Lost Garden](https://lostgarden.home.blog/) - A game development blog with long and interesting articles (not MUD-specific)
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- [What Games Are](http://whatgamesare.com/) - A blog about general game design (not MUD-specific)
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- [The Alexandrian](https://thealexandrian.net/) - 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.
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### Literature
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- Richard Bartle *Designing Virtual Worlds*
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([amazon page](https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Virtual-Worlds-Richard-Bartle/dp/0131018167)) -
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economic theory. Written in 1730 but the translation is annotated and the essay is actually very
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easy to follow also for a modern reader. Required reading if you think of implementing a sane game
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economic system.
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## Frameworks
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- [Django's homepage](https://www.djangoproject.com/)
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- [Documentation](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en)
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- [Code](https://code.djangoproject.com/)
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- [Twisted homepage](https://twistedmatrix.com/)
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- [Documentation](https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/index.html)
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- [Code](https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser)
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## Tools
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- [GIT](https://git-scm.com/)
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- [Documentation](https://git-scm.com/documentation)
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- [Learn GIT in 15 minutes](https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1) (interactive tutorial)
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## Python Info
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- [Python Website](https://www.python.org/)
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- [Documentation](https://www.python.org/doc/)
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- [Tutorial](https://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html)
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- [Library Reference](https://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html)
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- [Language Reference](https://docs.python.org/ref/ref.html)
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- [Python tips and tricks](https://www.siafoo.net/article/52)
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- [Jetbrains Python academy](https://hyperskill.org/onboarding?track=python) -
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free online programming curriculum for different skill levels
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