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. Even if you have a very different game style in mind for your own game, this will give you a good start.

The latter parts of the beginner tutorial are still being worked on.

• 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

• Command Prompt
• Command Cooldown
• Command Duration
• Default Exit Errors

Mobs and NPCs

• Tutorial NPCs listening
• Tutorial Aggressive NPCs
• NPC shop Tutorial

Vehicles

• Building a mech tutorial
• Tutorial Vehicles

Systems

• Making a Persistent object Handler
• Gametime Tutorial
• Mass and weight for objects
• Weather Tutorial
• Coordinates
• Adding room coordinates in your game
• Dynamic In Game Map
• Static In Game Map
• Arxcode installing help
• Tutorial Tweeting Game Stats

Web-related tutorials

• Add a wiki on your website
• Web Character Generation
• Web Character View Tutorial
• Help System Tutorial

Deep-dives

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

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