Giving reference to the Evennia MUD server?
Griatch opened this issue · 3 comments
Hi @munificent, cool book. Looks like a very useful resource!
I'm the lead developer/maintainer of Evennia, a Python MUD creation library/server.
One of our users recently made me aware of the prototype "goblin" examples from your book:
https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/prototype.html#prototypes-for-data-modeling -
These look like they were heavily inspired by the Evennia prototype example I wrote back in July of 2014:
https://github.com/evennia/evennia/blame/515ce71d65956ae3ef9c3e7be43e5673c8374436/game_template/world/prototypes.py
If so, that's cool and I take it as a compliment! A project like Evennia is niche enough that any exposure helps though. So if Evennia was an inspiration here, would it be possible to add a mention/link to it, like in the sidebar? I see this is done in other places of the book for other projects.
Cheers,
Griatch
I second this request. Evennia is a beautiful thing! It has helped me quickly learn Python in a most fun and awesome way. The community surrounding it is just as awesome!
The goblin example has been in the book since fall of 2013. I don't know if the Evennia prototype was around then, but if so, I don't recall reading about it. As far as I know, this is the first I've heard of Evennia. (It looks very nice! I have a lot of fondness for MUDs.) Unless you happened to see the chapter when I posted it to Reddit, it's probably just coincidence.
@munificent Thanks for the answer! I was not on Reddit that far back, so it would appear this would be an example of a strange coincidence then. I guess when it comes to prototypes, goblins is a good example to go to. :)