Evennia Starting Tutorial (Part 2)

Tutorial Parts

Part 1: What we have

A tour of Evennia and how to use the tools, including an introduction to Python.

Part 2: What we want

Planning our tutorial game and what to think about when planning your own in the future.

Part 3: How we get there

Getting down to the meat of extending Evennia to make our game

Part 4: Using what we created

Building a tech-demo and world content to go with our code

Part 5: Showing the world

Taking our new game online and let players try it out

Lessons for Part 2

1. Introduction & Overview (you are here)

2. On planning a game

3. Multisession modes

4. Layout of our tutorial game

5. Some useful Contribs

In Part two of the Starting tutorial we’ll step back and plan out the kind of tutorial game we want to make. In the process we’ll go through the common questions of “where to start” and “what to think about” when creating a multiplayer online text game. We’ll also look at some useful Evennia settings to tweak and designs to consider.