MUD Game Programming
by Ron Penton · first published 2003
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…Evennia got some contributors and the project took off the ground. Evidently, simpler is better :) Kudos to the author for keeping it alive and updated. BTW: There's also this: https://www.amazon.com/MUD-Game-Programming-Development/dp/1... - a pretty good book that taught me how to connect compiled and scripting languages. Now that I think about it, while I did start programming before having access to the Internet (QBasic…
on “Evennia a MUD/Mu* Creation System” ↗Great book. This one & "Mud Game Programming" by Ron Penton & the CircleMUD Documentation Project are also very good resources.
on “Multi-User Dungeon (MUD)” ↗MUD Game Programming. Not sure how easy obtaining a copy would be in 2023 but it has two projects which I recall being a lot of fun. I never did build a successful MUD but did learn a fair amount about network programming.…
on “Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?” ↗…users. It can still be done, but at some point, it might be easier to start from scratch rather than trying to make a stock Lua or Python interpreter work in that environment. [1] https://www.amazon.com/MUD-Game-Programming-Development/dp/1...
on “The case for MUDs in modern times” ↗Cool, I have one from a while ago that I got about that far as well. I was thinking about working through the Mud Game Programming book to get a working foundation going, but send me an email (in profile) once you start working on it again.
on “Revisiting 'Zork': What We Lost in the Transition to Visual Games” ↗>There's also this: https://www.amazon.com/MUD-Game-Programming-Development/dp/1... Does this book still hold up today? It's ~20 years old at this point.
on “Evennia a MUD/Mu* Creation System” ↗