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Latest Evennia dev blog: Evennia 1.0 released!: <br>
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Latest Evennia dev blog: Evennia 2.0.0 released today: <p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Field_Hamois_Belgium_Luc_Viatour.jpg" alt="screenshot" />
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<p>As part of our new use of <a href="https://semver.org/">semantic versioning</a>, Evennia
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2.0.0 was released today. Evennia is a Python <code>MU*</code> creation framework and
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server. As the change of the major version indicates, this is a backwards
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incompatible change ... well, <em>maybe</em>. It depends on your use-case. Read on.</p>
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<p>In this post I'll go over some of the new things since the release of Evennia
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1.0 some six months ago.</p>
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<h2>New version of the ExtendedRoom</h2>
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<p>The main thing that <em>may</em> be backwards income is the <code>ExtendedRoom</code> contrib.
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This contrib extends the standard room with the ability to look at 'details' and
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to have descriptions that change by season and by time-of-day in the game. I
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originally wrote the <code>ExtendedRoom</code> contrib more than a decade ago and it was
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in dire need to be recactored and cleaned up to use the modern tools available
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in Evennia. Not to mention make use of my additional years of experience since
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first creating it.</p>
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<p>Here are the <a href="https://github.com/evennia/evennia/discussions/3200">new features</a>:</p>
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<li>All rooms can now have any number of "room states", like "burning", "flooded",
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"dark", "crowded" or what have you. The <code>season</code> and <code>time_of_day</code> are now just
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treated as any other room-states except that they auto-change with in-game time.</li>
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<li>Rooms can have any number of swappable room-descriptions, just by adding an
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Attribute <code>desc_<roomstate></code> to the room. This will be used when a given
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room-state is set on the room. If no room state matches, the traditional
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<code>desc</code> Attribute is used.</li>
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<li>In the old contrib, you could add special tags, like <code><morning>...</morning></code>
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in your descriptions and have those parts of the texts only appear when it's
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morning in-game. This still works, but only ever supported time-of-day states.
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The new way is to make use Evennia's FuncParser to embed functions in the text
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directly. The <code>ExtendedRoom</code> understands the new <code>state</code> inline function. This
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can be used with <em>any</em> room state (including seasons and time-of-day). For
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example: <code>$state(morning, The morning sun is shining in.)</code> or
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<code>$state(burning, This place is on fire!)</code>.</li>
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<li>The room still supports <code>details</code> - the ability to look at things in the room
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without needing to create a new database object first. This hasn't changed.</li>
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<li>The <code>ExtendedRoom</code> now also has simple support for echoing random messages now
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and then to the room.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Overall, the code was completely re-written and cleaned up, making use of the
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latest Evennia tooling. It also has much better unit-test coverage. All the unit
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tests of the old implementation passes for the new one, but the changes are
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so big that it's nevertheless possible people making heavy use of
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this contrib may see side effects from upgrading.</p>
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<p>Now, a contrib is not part of the core, so it (potentially) being
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backwards-incompatible should normally not warrant a major version bump. But I
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feel the <code>ExtendedRoom</code> contrib is used by so many in the Evennia community that
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it's prudent to up the major version to let people know that they should
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keep an eye out when upgrading.</p>
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<h2>More on the Beginner Tutorial</h2>
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<p>Most of my time has been spent continuing to work on the new <a href="https://www.evennia.com/docs/latest/Howtos/Beginner-Tutorial/Beginner-Tutorial-Overview.html">Beginner Tutorial</a>. Notably on <a href="https://www.evennia.com/docs/latest/Howtos/Beginner-Tutorial/Part3/Beginner-Tutorial-Part3-Overview.html">part three</a>, where
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we are making a whole little Evennia MUD game from scratch. While still not
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done, I have now added detailed lessons on</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Creating RPG dice rollers and rule systems (in our example we are using the
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<em>Knave</em> TTRPG ruleset).</li>
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<li>Organizing Player Character data, and character generation.</li>
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<li>In-game objects and items.</li>
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<li>Handling equipment and weapons.</li>
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<li>In-game rooms.</li>
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<li>Non-player characters.</li>
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<li>Two types of Combat systems (Twitch-based and Turn based).</li>
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</ul>
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<p>TODOs are Monster/NPC AI, Dynamical generation of rooms, Questin, Shops and some
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more bits and bobs. And of course a separate session on building the game world
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and tying all these systems together into a little example game.</p>
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<h2>A truckload of new features!</h2>
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<p>As usual, the Evennia community ame through with a bunch of new useful stuff since
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the release of Evennia 1.0.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><code>Containers</code> - A new contrib with a typeclass and commands to make and manage
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all sorts of containers, from chests to crates and jars, along with commands
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to put things in them and take things out of them. A great place to start
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tweaking for your own game implementation (InspectorCaracal).</li>
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<li>The ANSI color fallbacks (for use when your client does not support XTerm256)
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were improved to make more sense (InspectorCaracal).</li>
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<li>New <code>logger.delete_log</code> method for deleting log files from inside the server (aMiss-aWry).</li>
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<li>For those intending to override the <code>SessionHandler</code>, it was cleaned up and
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refactored to make it less prone to cause circular import issues (Volund).</li>
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<li>New <code>create_channel(attr=...)</code> keyword, for setting channel Attributes
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directly on creation, especially from channels defined in <code>settings.DEFAULT_CHANNELS</code> (me)</li>
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<li>Attributes will now properly save Python <code>deques</code> with <code>maxlen=...</code> set (me).</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.evennia.com/docs/latest/Components/Tags.html#tagcategoryproperty"><code>TagCategoryProperty</code></a> - A new way to define tags with a particular category on a class at creation-time, without having to do so in the <code>at_object_creation</code> method (me).</li>
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<li>A lot of bug fixes; <a href="https://www.evennia.com/docs/latest/Coding/Changelog.html">see the CHANGELOG</a> for all the details!</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Continuing</h2>
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<p>Over summer, my development usually slows down a bit, but I plan to keep pushing
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on getting that Beginner tutorial done. We are also seeing more people joing
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the <a href="https://discord.gg/AJJpcRUhtF">evennia discord</a>, which means more eyes on
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the code and more bugs and edge cases being detected (and ironed out). So a lot
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of maintenance work to be done in the short term.</p>
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<p>In the longer term, there are a lot of exciting plans for Evennia in the pipe,
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but we'll get there when we get there. :)</p>
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<p>Have a nice summer!</p>
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<a href="2017.html#2017-09-20-evennia-0.7-released">Sep 20
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<a href="2017.html#2017-09-20-evennia-0.7-released">Evennia 0.7 released
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<a href="2017.html#2017-08-25-renaming-django's-auth-user-and-app">Aug 25
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<a href="2017.html#2017-04-23-the-luxury-of-a-creative-community">Apr 23
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">The luxury of a creative community</span>
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<a href="2017.html#2017-04-23-the-luxury-of-a-creative-community">The luxury of a cr...
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<a href="2016.html#2016-10-13-season-of-fixes">Season of fixes
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<a href="2016.html#2016-07-01-the-art-of-sharing-nicks-and-descriptions">Jul 1
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">The art of sharing nicks and descriptions</span>
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">The art of sharing nicks and descriptions</span>
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<a href="2016.html#2016-07-01-the-art-of-sharing-nicks-and-descriptions">The art of sharing...
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<a href="2016.html#2016-05-31-evennia-in-pictures">May 31
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Evennia in Pictures</span>
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Evennia in Pictures</span>
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<a href="2016.html#2016-05-31-evennia-in-pictures">Evennia in Pictures
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<a href="2016.html#2016-05-22-evennia-0.6!">May 22
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Evennia 0.6!</span>
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Evennia 0.6!</span>
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<a href="2016.html#2016-05-22-evennia-0.6!"> Evennia 0.6!
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||||
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<a href="2016.html#2016-03-24-technical-stuff-happening">Mar 24
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Technical stuff happening</span>
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<a href="2016.html#2016-03-24-technical-stuff-happening">Technical stuff ha...
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<a href="2016.html#2016-02-14-climbing-up-branches">Feb 14
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Climbing up Branches</span>
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Climbing up Branches</span>
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<a href="2016.html#2016-02-14-climbing-up-branches">Climbing up Branches
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||||
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<a href="2015.html#2015-12-17-a-summary-of-a-year">Dec 17
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">A summary of a year</span>
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">A summary of a year</span>
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<a href="2015.html#2015-12-17-a-summary-of-a-year">A summary of a year
|
||||
</a>
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<a href="2015.html#2015-11-12-mit-uses-evennia!">Nov 12
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> MIT uses Evennia!</span>
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> MIT uses Evennia!</span>
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||||
<a href="2015.html#2015-11-12-mit-uses-evennia!"> MIT uses Evennia!
|
||||
</a>
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<a href="2015.html#2015-10-11-illustrations-and-soaps">Oct 11
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Illustrations and soaps</span>
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Illustrations and soaps</span>
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<a href="2015.html#2015-10-11-illustrations-and-soaps">Illustrations and ...
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||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
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<a href="2015.html#2015-10-02-emoting-system">Oct 2
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Emoting System</span>
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Emoting System</span>
|
||||
<a href="2015.html#2015-10-02-emoting-system">Emoting System
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
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||||
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||||
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<a href="2015.html#2015-09-29-evennia-on-`podcast.__init__`">Sep 29
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Evennia on `podcast.__init__`</span>
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Evennia on `podcast.__init__`</span>
|
||||
<a href="2015.html#2015-09-29-evennia-on-`podcast.__init__`"> Evennia on `podca...
|
||||
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|
||||
</li>
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||||
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<a href="2015.html#2015-09-24-pushing-through-a-straw">Sep 24
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Pushing through a straw</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Pushing through a straw</span>
|
||||
<a href="2015.html#2015-09-24-pushing-through-a-straw">Pushing through a ...
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
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<a href="2015.html#2015-08-27-a-wagon-load-of-post-summer-updates">Aug 27
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">A wagon load of post summer updates</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">A wagon load of post summer updates</span>
|
||||
<a href="2015.html#2015-08-27-a-wagon-load-of-post-summer-updates">A wagon load of po...
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li class="devblog-calendar-post devblog-calendar-tooltip">
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||||
<a href="2015.html#2015-06-22-announcing-the-evennia-example-game-project-"ainneve"">Jun 22
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Announcing the Evennia example-game project "Ainneve"</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Announcing the Evennia example-game project "Ainneve"</span>
|
||||
<a href="2015.html#2015-06-22-announcing-the-evennia-example-game-project-"ainneve""> Announcing the Ev...
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
</li>
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||||
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||||
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<a href="2015.html#2015-06-15-need-your-help!">Jun 15
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Need your help!</span>
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Need your help!</span>
|
||||
<a href="2015.html#2015-06-15-need-your-help!"> Need your help!
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
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||||
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<a href="2015.html#2015-05-30-dreaming-big?">May 30
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Dreaming big?</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Dreaming big?</span>
|
||||
<a href="2015.html#2015-05-30-dreaming-big?"> Dreaming big?
|
||||
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|
||||
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||||
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||||
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<a href="2015.html#2015-05-11-things-goin-on">May 11
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Things goin on</span>
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Things goin on</span>
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<a href="2015.html#2015-05-11-things-goin-on">Things goin on
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||||
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|
||||
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||||
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||||
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<a href="2015.html#2015-05-09-documenting-python-without-sphinx">May 9
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Documenting Python without Sphinx</span>
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Documenting Python without Sphinx</span>
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<a href="2015.html#2015-05-09-documenting-python-without-sphinx">Documenting Python...
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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||||
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<a href="2015.html#2015-01-19-building-django-proxies-and-mud-libraries">Jan 19
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Building Django proxies and MUD libraries</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Building Django proxies and MUD libraries</span>
|
||||
<a href="2015.html#2015-01-19-building-django-proxies-and-mud-libraries">Building Django pr...
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
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||||
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<a href="2014.html#2014-10-02-slowly-moving-through-town">Oct 2
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Slowly moving through town</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Slowly moving through town</span>
|
||||
<a href="2014.html#2014-10-02-slowly-moving-through-town">Slowly moving thro...
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||||
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|
||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
<a href="2014.html#2014-08-04-dance-my-puppets">Aug 4
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Dance my puppets</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Dance my puppets</span>
|
||||
<a href="2014.html#2014-08-04-dance-my-puppets">Dance my puppets
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
<a href="2014.html#2014-06-30-webby-stuff">Jun 30
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Webby stuff</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Webby stuff</span>
|
||||
<a href="2014.html#2014-06-30-webby-stuff">Webby stuff
|
||||
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|
||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
<a href="2014.html#2014-06-15-bringing-back-python-memory">Jun 15
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Bringing back Python memory</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Bringing back Python memory</span>
|
||||
<a href="2014.html#2014-06-15-bringing-back-python-memory">Bringing back Pyth...
|
||||
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|
||||
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||||
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||||
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<a href="2014.html#2014-05-16-imaginary-realities-volume-6,-issue-1">May 16
|
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Imaginary Realities volume 6, issue 1</span>
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text"> Imaginary Realities volume 6, issue 1</span>
|
||||
<a href="2014.html#2014-05-16-imaginary-realities-volume-6,-issue-1"> Imaginary Realiti...
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
</li>
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||||
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||||
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||||
<a href="2014.html#2014-02-08-moving-from-google-code-to-github">Feb 8
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Moving from Google Code to Github</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Moving from Google Code to Github</span>
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||||
<a href="2014.html#2014-02-08-moving-from-google-code-to-github">Moving from Google...
|
||||
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|
||||
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||||
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<a href="2014.html#2014-01-24-looking-forwards-and-backwards">Jan 24
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Looking forwards and backwards</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Looking forwards and backwards</span>
|
||||
<a href="2014.html#2014-01-24-looking-forwards-and-backwards">Looking forwards a...
|
||||
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||||
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<a href="2013.html#2013-12-16-imaginary-realities-is-back">Dec 16
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Imaginary Realities is back</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Imaginary Realities is back</span>
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||||
<a href="2013.html#2013-12-16-imaginary-realities-is-back">Imaginary Realitie...
|
||||
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|
||||
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||||
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<a href="2013.html#2013-11-28-out-of-band-mergings">Nov 28
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Out of band mergings</span>
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<a href="2013.html#2013-11-28-out-of-band-mergings">Out of band mergings
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||||
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<a href="2013.html#2013-10-22-a-list-of-evennia-topics">Oct 22
|
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">A list of Evennia topics</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">A list of Evennia topics</span>
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||||
<a href="2013.html#2013-10-22-a-list-of-evennia-topics">A list of Evennia ...
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||||
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||||
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<a href="2013.html#2013-05-13-one-to-many">May 13
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">One to Many</span>
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">One to Many</span>
|
||||
<a href="2013.html#2013-05-13-one-to-many">One to Many
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||||
</a>
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||||
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<a href="2013.html#2013-01-29-churning-behind-the-scenes">Jan 29
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<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Churning behind the scenes</span>
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Churning behind the scenes</span>
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<a href="2013.html#2013-01-29-churning-behind-the-scenes">Churning behind th...
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||||
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<a href="2012.html#2012-10-28-evennia-changes-to-bsd-license">Oct 28
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Evennia changes to BSD license</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Evennia changes to BSD license</span>
|
||||
<a href="2012.html#2012-10-28-evennia-changes-to-bsd-license">Evennia changes to...
|
||||
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|
||||
</li>
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||||
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||||
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<a href="2012.html#2012-10-05-community-interest">Oct 5
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|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Community interest</span>
|
||||
<a href="2012.html#2012-10-05-community-interest">Community interest
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||||
</a>
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||||
</li>
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||||
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||||
<li class="devblog-calendar-post devblog-calendar-tooltip">
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<a href="2012.html#2012-08-31-combining-twisted-and-django">Aug 31
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Combining Twisted and Django</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Combining Twisted and Django</span>
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<a href="2012.html#2012-08-31-combining-twisted-and-django">Combining Twisted ...
|
||||
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|
||||
</li>
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||||
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||||
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<a href="2012.html#2012-08-16-taking-command">Aug 16
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Taking command</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Taking command</span>
|
||||
<a href="2012.html#2012-08-16-taking-command">Taking command
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||||
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||||
</li>
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||||
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||||
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<a href="2012.html#2012-06-26-extending-time-and-details">Jun 26
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||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Extending time and details</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Extending time and details</span>
|
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<a href="2012.html#2012-06-26-extending-time-and-details">Extending time and...
|
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|
||||
</li>
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<a href="2012.html#2012-06-11-coding-from-the-inside">Jun 11
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Coding from the inside</span>
|
||||
<span class="devblog-calendar-tooltip-text">Coding from the inside</span>
|
||||
<a href="2012.html#2012-06-11-coding-from-the-inside">Coding from the in...
|
||||
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<p>The last few months has been dominated by bug-fixing and testing in Evennia-land. A lot more new users appears to be starting to use Evennia, especially from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSH">MUSH</a> world where the Evennia-based <em><a href="http://play.arxgame.org/">Arx, After the Reckoning</a></em> is, while still in alpha, currently leading the charge.</p>
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<p>With a new influx of users comes the application of all sorts of use- and edge-cases that stretch and exercise the framework in all the places where it matters. There is no better test of code than new users trying to use it unsupervised! Evennia is holding up well overall but there are always things that can be improved.</p>
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<p>I reworked the way on-object Attributes was cached (from a stupid but simple way to a lot more sophisticated but harder way) and achieved three times faster performance in certain special cases people had complained about. Other issues also came to view while diving into this, which could be fixed.</p>
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<p>I reworked the venerable batch command and batchcode processors (these allow to create a game world from a script file) and made their inputs make more sense to people. This was one of the older parts of Evennia and apart from the module needing a big refactoring to be easier to read, some parts were pretty fragile and prone to break. Especially when passing it file names tended to be confusing since it understood only certain relative paths to the files to read in and not even I could remember if one should include the file ending or not. This was cleaned up a lot.</p>
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<p>Lots of changes and updates were made to the RPSystem contrib, which optionally adds more advanced roleplaying mechanics to Evennia. The use of this in Evennia's demo game (<a href="https://github.com/evennia/ainneve">Ainneve</a>, being separately developed) helps a lot for ironing out any remaining wrinkles.</p>
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<p>Lots and lots of other fixes and smaller feature updates were done (About <a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1124770844"></a><a href="https://github.com/evennia/evennia/commits/master">150 commits and 50 Issues</a> closed since end of summer).</p>
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<li>I reworked the way on-object Attributes was cached (from a stupid but simple way to a lot more sophisticated but harder way) and achieved three times faster performance in certain special cases people had complained about. Other issues also came to view while diving into this, which could be fixed.</li>
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<li>I reworked the venerable batch command and batchcode processors (these allow to create a game world from a script file) and made their inputs make more sense to people. This was one of the older parts of Evennia and apart from the module needing a big refactoring to be easier to read, some parts were pretty fragile and prone to break. Especially when passing it file names tended to be confusing since it understood only certain relative paths to the files to read in and not even I could remember if one should include the file ending or not. This was cleaned up a lot.</li>
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<li>Lots of changes and updates were made to the RPSystem contrib, which optionally adds more advanced roleplaying mechanics to Evennia. The use of this in Evennia's demo game (<a href="https://github.com/evennia/ainneve">Ainneve</a>, being separately developed) helps a lot for ironing out any remaining wrinkles.</li>
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<li>Lots and lots of other fixes and smaller feature updates were done (About <a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1124770844"></a><a href="https://github.com/evennia/evennia/commits/master">150 commits and 50 Issues</a> closed since end of summer).</li>
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<p>A fun thing with a growing user base is that we are also starting to see a lot more Pull requests and contributions. Thanks a lot, keep 'em coming!</p>
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<p>Map system contrib (merged), for creating a world based on ASCII map. Talking about maps, users contributed not just one but two new tutorials for implementing both static and dynamic maps with Evennia.</p>
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<p>Webclient notifications (pending), for making the webclient show us in a clearer way when it gets updated in a different tab. A more advanced implementation awaits the webclient being expanded with a proper client-side option window; there is currently a feature request for this if anyone's interested in taking it on.</p>
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<p>AI system contrib (pending). This is a full AI backend for adding complex behaviors to game agents. It uses Behavioral trees and is designed to be modified both in code and from inside the game.</p>
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<p>Action system contrib (pending). This contrib assigns the actions of Characters a time cost and delays the results of commands the given time. It also allows players to go into turn-based mode to enforce a strict action order.</p>
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<p><em>Lots</em> of now closed PRs were contributed by the Arx lead developer to fix various bugs and edge-cases as they came up in live use.</p>
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<li>Map system contrib (merged), for creating a world based on ASCII map. Talking about maps, users contributed not just one but two new tutorials for implementing both static and dynamic maps with Evennia.</li>
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<li>Webclient notifications (pending), for making the webclient show us in a clearer way when it gets updated in a different tab. A more advanced implementation awaits the webclient being expanded with a proper client-side option window; there is currently a feature request for this if anyone's interested in taking it on.</li>
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<li>AI system contrib (pending). This is a full AI backend for adding complex behaviors to game agents. It uses Behavioral trees and is designed to be modified both in code and from inside the game.</li>
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<li>Action system contrib (pending). This contrib assigns the actions of Characters a time cost and delays the results of commands the given time. It also allows players to go into turn-based mode to enforce a strict action order.</li>
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<li><em>Lots</em> of now closed PRs were contributed by the Arx lead developer to fix various bugs and edge-cases as they came up in live use.</li>
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<p>The fixing and tightening of the nuts and bolts will likely continue the remainder of the year. I'm currently working on a refactoring of the way command sets are merged together (see the end of my <a href="http://evennia.blogspot.se/2016/05/evennia-in-pictures.html">blog post on Evennia in pictures</a> for a brief summary of the command system). But with so much new blood in the community, who can tell where things will turn from here!</p>
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<h3>Multidescer contrib</h3>
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<p>I have added a new "multidescer" to the contrib folder. A multidescer is (I think) a MUSH term for a mechanism managing more than one description. You can then combine any of these various descriptions into your "active" description.</p>
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<p>An example of usage:</p>
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<p><strong>desc hat = a blue hat.</strong><br />
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<strong>desc basic = This is a tall man with narrow features.</strong><br />
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<p>These commands store the description on the Character and references them as unique keywords. Next we can combine these strings together in any order to build the actual current description:</p>
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<p><strong>> desc/set basic + |/ + clothing + On his head he has + hat</strong><br />
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<strong>> look self</strong><br />
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<strong>This is a tall man with narrow features.</strong><br />
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<strong>He is wearing black, flowing robes. On his head he has a blue hat.</strong></p>
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<p>This allows for both very flexible and easy-to-update descriptions but also a way to handle freeform equipment and clothing. And you can of course use the nick system to pre-format the output</p>
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<p><strong>> nick setdesc $1 $2 $3 $4 = $1 + |/ + clothing + On his head he has a $4</strong></p>
|
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<p>This way you can clothe yourself in different outfits easily using the same output format:</p>
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<p><strong>> setdesc basic clothing hat</strong></p>
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|
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<p>The multidescer is a single, self-contained command that is easy to import and add to your game as needed.</p>
|
||||
<p>... There's also plenty of bug fixes, documentation work and other minor things or course.</p>
|
||||
<p>Anyway, summer is now upon us here in the northern hemisphere so things will calm down for a bit, at least from my end. Have a good 'un!</p>
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<p>The HTML5 webclient has itself updated considerably. Most is happening behind the scenes though. Notably the webclient's javascript component is split into two:</p>
|
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<p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vx-uriUXOjI/V0If9Q3TcVI/AAAAAAAAEm4/35haAV1OyAoafjxwHP8wMcOad4CC4OpkQCLcB/s1600/evennia_screen.png"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vx-uriUXOjI/V0If9Q3TcVI/AAAAAAAAEm4/35haAV1OyAoafjxwHP8wMcOad4CC4OpkQCLcB/s400/evennia_screen.png" alt="" /></a></p>
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||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<p><strong>evennia.js</strong>, acts as a library for handling all communication with the server part of Evennia. It offers events for a gui library to plug into and send/receive. It will also gracefully degrade from a websocket connection to AJAX/COMET long-polling if the player uses an older browser.</p>
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||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<p><strong>evennia_gui.js</strong> is the default front-end and implements a traditional and stable "telnet-like" interface. The html part uses uses Django templating to make it easy to customize and expand. Since this simply makes use of the resources offered by evennia.js, one could pretty easily slip in some other gui library here, or set up calls to get all sorts of interesting information from the server (which talks back using inputfuncs).</p>
|
||||
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<li><strong>evennia.js</strong>, acts as a library for handling all communication with the server part of Evennia. It offers events for a gui library to plug into and send/receive. It will also gracefully degrade from a websocket connection to AJAX/COMET long-polling if the player uses an older browser.</li>
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||||
<li><strong>evennia_gui.js</strong> is the default front-end and implements a traditional and stable "telnet-like" interface. The html part uses uses Django templating to make it easy to customize and expand. Since this simply makes use of the resources offered by evennia.js, one could pretty easily slip in some other gui library here, or set up calls to get all sorts of interesting information from the server (which talks back using inputfuncs).</li>
|
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|
||||
<p>There are a truckload of more updates and features that are covered <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21category-topic/evennia/evennia-news/Ik8hi7ajZlI">on the mailing list</a>.</p>
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<p>The first steps, which has been done a while was converting the SSH/SSL and IRC input/output protocols to use the new protocol infrastructure (telnet and websockets was done since before). That's just under-the-hood stuff though. Today I finished the changes to the Monitor/TickerHandlers, which may be of more general interest.</p>
|
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<p>With the changes to the the way OOB (Out-Of-Band) messages are passing through Evennia (see <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21category-topic/evennia/evennia-news/xWQu_YVm14k">this mailing list post</a> for more details), the <strong>OOBHandler</strong> is no more. As discussed there, the handling of incoming data is becoming a lot freer and will be easily expandable to everyone wanting to make for a custom client experience. The idea is thus for Evennia to offer <em>resources</em> for various input commands to make use of, rather than prescribing such functionality in a monolothic way in the OOBHandler. There were three main functionalities the OOBHandler offered, and which will now be offered by separate components:</p>
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|
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<p><strong>Direct function callback.</strong> The instruction from the client should be able to trigger a named server-side function. This is the core of the inputfunc system described previously.</p>
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<p><strong>Field/Attribute monitoring</strong>. The client should be able to request <em>monitoring</em> of an object's database fields or Attributes. For example, the client may request to be notified whenever the Character's "health" Attribute changes in some way. This is now handled by the new <em>monitorhandler</em>. See below.</p>
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<p><strong>Non-persistent function repeats.</strong> One should be able to set up a repeating ticker that survives a server reload but does <em>not</em> survive a cold shutdown - this mimics the life cycle of server Sessions. Scripts could do this already but I wanted to be able to use the TickerHandler for quick assignment. Problem was that the Tickerhandler in master branch is not only always-persistent, it also only calls <em>database</em> <em>object methods</em>. So I have now expanded the tickerhandler to also accept arbitrary module functions, without any connection to a database object.</p>
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<li><strong>Direct function callback.</strong> The instruction from the client should be able to trigger a named server-side function. This is the core of the inputfunc system described previously.</li>
|
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<li><strong>Field/Attribute monitoring</strong>. The client should be able to request <em>monitoring</em> of an object's database fields or Attributes. For example, the client may request to be notified whenever the Character's "health" Attribute changes in some way. This is now handled by the new <em>monitorhandler</em>. See below.</li>
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<li><strong>Non-persistent function repeats.</strong> One should be able to set up a repeating ticker that survives a server reload but does <em>not</em> survive a cold shutdown - this mimics the life cycle of server Sessions. Scripts could do this already but I wanted to be able to use the TickerHandler for quick assignment. Problem was that the Tickerhandler in master branch is not only always-persistent, it also only calls <em>database</em> <em>object methods</em>. So I have now expanded the tickerhandler to also accept arbitrary module functions, without any connection to a database object.</li>
|
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|
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<h2>The MonitorHandler</h2>
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<p><strong>evennia.MONITOR_HANDLER</strong> is the new singleton managing monitoring of on-object field/attribute changes. It is used like this:</p>
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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%;"><span></span>MONITOR_HANDLER.add(obj, field_or_attrname, callback, **kwargs)
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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%;"><span></span> MONITOR_HANDLER.add(obj, field_or_attrname, callback, **kwargs)
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</pre></div>
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<p>Here <strong>obj</strong> is a database entity, like a Character or another Object. The <strong>field_or_attrname</strong> is a string giving the name of a <strong>db_</strong>* database field (like <strong>"db_key", "db_location"</strong> etc). Any name not starting with <strong>db_</strong> is assumed to be the name of an on-object Attribute (like <strong>"health"</strong>). Henceforth, whenever this field or attribute changes in any way (that is, whenever it is re-saved to the database), the <strong>callback</strong> will be called with the optional <strong>kwargs</strong>, as well as a way to easily get to the changed value. As all handlers you can also list and remove monitors using the standard <strong>MONITOR_HANDLER</strong>.<strong>remove()</strong>, <strong>.all()</strong> etc.</p>
|
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<h2>The TickerHandler</h2>
|
||||
<p><strong>evennia.TICKER_HANDLER</strong> should be familiar to Evennia users from before - it's been around for a good while. It allows for creating arbitrary "tickers" that is being "subscribed" to - one ticker will call all subscribers rather than each object or function having its own timer.</p>
|
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<p>Before, the syntax for adding a new ticker required you specify a typeclassed entity and the name of the method on it to call every N seconds. This will now change. This is the new callsign for creating a new ticker:</p>
|
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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%;"><span></span>TICKER_HANDLER.add(interval, callback, idstring="", persistent=True, *args, **kwargs)
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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%;"><span></span> TICKER_HANDLER.add(interval, callback, idstring="", persistent=True, *args, **kwargs)
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<p>Here**, interval,** like before, defines how often to call **callback(*args, <strong>kwargs)</strong>.</p>
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