External links and resources
============================

This is a list of resources that may be useful for Evennia users and
developers.

Evennia links
-------------

-  `Evennia's main portal page <http://www.evennia.com>`_ (RSS feeds to
   updates)
-  `Evennia forums <http://www.evennia.com/discussions>`_
-  `Evennia Commit
   Log <http://groups.google.com/group/evennia-commits>`_ (hg commit
   notification)
-  `Sequential source update
   list <http://code.google.com/p/evennia/source/list>`_ (easily see
   what was changed in each update)
-  `Evennia mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/evennia>`_
   (better web interface can be found from the portal)

Third-party Evennia links
-------------------------

-  `Evennia's manual on
   ReadTheDocs <http://readthedocs.org/projects/evennia/>`_ (also
   convert to PDF)
-  `Hosting Evennia on
   Webfaction <http://lotek.heavy.ch/evennia#Hosting>`_
-  `Evennia on Ohloh <http://www.ohloh.net/projects/6906>`_
-  `Evennia on OpenHatch <http://openhatch.org/+projects/Evennia>`_
-  `Evennia on
   PyPi <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Evennia%20MUD%20Server/Alpha>`_

General mud/game development ideas and discussions
--------------------------------------------------

-  `MudLab <http://mudlab.org/>`_ mud design discussion forum
-  `MudConnector <http://www.mudconnect.com/>`_ mud listing and forums
-  `MudBytes <http://www.mudbytes.net/>`_ mud listing and forums
-  `Top Mud bytes <http://www.topmudsites.com/>`_ mud listing and forums
-  `MudStandards wiki <http://www.mudstandards.org/MudStandards_Wiki>`_
   is an attempt at gathering protocol standards for MUD servers.

-  `Planet Mud-Dev <http://planet-muddev.disinterest.org/>`_ is a blog
   aggregator following blogs of current MUD development around the
   'net.
-  Mud Dev mailing list archive
   (`mirror1 <http://nilgiri.net/MUD-Dev-archive/>`_),(`mirror2 <http://www.disinterest.org/resource/MUD-Dev/>`_)
   - Influential mailing list active 1996-2004. Advanced game design
   discussions.
-  `Imaginary
   Realities <http://disinterest.org/resource/imaginary-realities/>`_ is
   an e-magazine on game/MUD design which were active 1998-2001.
   Interesting articles.

-  `Lost Garden <http://www.lostgarden.com/>`_ is a game development
   blog with long and interesting articles (not MUD-specific)
-  `What Games Are <http://whatgamesare.com/>`_ is a blog about general
   game design (not MUD-specific)

Frameworks
----------

`Django's homepage <http://www.djangoproject.com/>`_

-  `Documentation <http://docs.djangoproject.com/en>`_
-  `Code <http://code.djangoproject.com/>`_

`Twisted homepage <http://twistedmatrix.com/>`_

-  `Documentation <http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/index.html>`_
-  `Code <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser>`_

Tools
-----

-  `Mercurial tutorial <http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Tutorial>`_
-  `Another, pretty funny, Mercurial tutorial <http://hginit.com/>`_
-  `Sphinx manual <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/contents.html>`_ (compile
   documentation)
-  `Doxygen <http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/>`_ (build auto-docs)

Python Info
-----------

`Python Website <http://www.python.org/>`_

-  `Documentation <http://www.python.org/doc/>`_
-  `Tutorial <http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html>`_
-  `Library Reference <http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html>`_
-  `Language Reference <http://docs.python.org/ref/ref.html>`_