Tutorials and Howto’s

All Evennia tutorials. They will often refer to the components or concepts if you want to dive deeper.

Beginner Tutorial

Recommended starting point! This will take you from absolute beginner to making a small but full game with Evennia. Other tutorials and howto’s tend to assume you are already familiar with the concepts explained in the Beginning tutorial.

Note

Part 3 and onwards are still under development.

• Beginner Tutorial
  • Things you need
    • A Command line
    • A MUD client
    • An Editor
    • Set up a game dir for the tutorial
• Part 1: What we have
  • Lessons
    • 1. Using commands and building stuff
    • 2. The Tutorial World
    • 3. Intro to using Python with Evennia
    • 4. Overview of your new Game Dir
    • 5. Introduction to Python classes and objects
    • 6. Overview of the Evennia library
    • 7. Making objects persistent
    • 8. Adding custom commands
    • 9. Parsing Command input
    • 10. Creating things
    • 11. Searching for things
    • 12. Advanced searching - Django Database queries
    • 13. Building a chair you can sit on
• Part 2: What we want
  • Lessons
    • 1. Where do I begin?
    • 2. On Planning a Game
    • 3. Planning our tutorial game
• Part 3: How we get there (example game)
  • Lessons
    • 1. Code structure and Utilities
    • 2. Rules and dice rolling
    • 3. Player Characters
    • 4. In-game Objects and items
    • 5. Handling Equipment
    • 6. Character Generation
    • 7. In-game Rooms
    • 8. Non-Player-Characters (NPCs)
    • 9. Game Quests
    • 10. In-game Shops
    • 11. Dynamically generated Dungeon
    • 12. In-game Commands
• Part 4: Using what we created
  • Lessons
    • 1. Unimplemented
• Part 5: Showing the world
  • Lessons
    • 1. Add a simple new web page
    • 2. Web Tutorial

Howto’s

• Adding a Command Prompt
  • A fixed-location prompt
  • A prompt with every command
• Adding Command Cooldowns
  • An efficient cooldown
  • Make a cooldown-aware command parent
• Commands that take time to finish
  • Pause commands with yield
  • Pause commands with utils.delay
  • Making a blocking command
  • Make a Command possible to Abort
• Return custom errors on missing Exits
  • Why not a single command?
• Give objects weight
  • Limit inventory by weight carried

Mobs and NPCs

• NPCs that listen to what is said
• NPCs reacting to your presence
• NPC merchants

Vehicles

• Building a mech tutorial
• Tutorial Vehicles

Systems

• Making a Persistent object Handler
• Gametime Tutorial
• Weather Tutorial
• Coordinates
• Adding room coordinates in your game
• Dynamic In Game Map
• Static In Game Map
• Tutorial Tweeting Game Stats

Web-related tutorials

• Add a wiki on your website
• Web Character Generation
• Web Character View Tutorial
• Help System Tutorial
• Extending the REST API

Deep-dives

• Parsing command arguments, theory and best practices
• Understanding Color Tags
• Evennia for roleplaying sessions
• Evennia for Diku Users
• Evennia for MUSH Users
• Arxcode installing help

Old tutorials

These will be replaced by the Beginner Tutorial, but remain here until that is complete.

• Implementing a game rule system
• Turn based Combat System
• Tutorial for basic MUSH like game