Re: [gopher] Running a MUD, was: Re: cgod - a new prototype gopher daemon
Of course Evennia, which is built on Python can do all that. They have an in-
game command to demonstrate it: "@irc2chan" and "@rss2chan". Which can turn a
regular in-game chat channel into either a connected IRC client or RSS feed
reader. Python is very powerful when it comes to talking with the outside
world, and Python is in no way crippled when it comes to Evennia.
Creating a Gopher client object using my Python gopherlib module was actually
a plan of mine for awhile. I wanted to create an in-game Gopher client as a
chat channel, so that group Gopher surfing could be possible and create a basic
gopher client on a virtual Amiga or Atari.
And as for exposing the game world to the outside world by say a Gopher
server, the Evennia world database is stored in a popular format, any Database
that Python supports Evennia can store it's world data on. So, creating
either a stand-alone Gopher server or creating a "mole" will be easy peasie.
The mole or stand-alone server only needs to know how to connect and query the
SQL server.
On December 24, 2014 01:59:14 PM Wolfgang Faust wrote:
> On Dec 24, 2014 3:37 PM, "Kevin Veroneau" <kevin@veroneau.net> wrote:
> > So, the people who don't know Python very well can communicate to the
> > people who do on what types on room and object personalities they would
> > like to see available. Then on a master list of sorts, we can list all
> > the current room and object types available in-game currently. So,
> > when you go to build something, you can check this list, either via an
> > in-game command or on a Gopherhole to see what "typeclass" or "script"
> > you want to assign to your newly created room or object.
>
> I've no idea if Evennia supports this (probably not), but LambdaMOO has
> support for building arbitrary clients and servers in the LambdaMOO
> language. MOO Canada had (it seems to be down at the moment) a gopher
> server with which you could browse the world. In case it comes back up, the
> address is gopher://moo.ca/
>
> Incidentally, someone has also written for LambdaMOO a "Generic Gopher
> Tablet" which acts as an in-world gopher client that you can interact with
> and pass around to other people in the world. So, for instance, you can
> browse to a site and then hand the tablet to someone else, who can then
> read the page you have browsed to.
>
> The problem with a LambdaMOO server, of course, is that it uses a language
> all its own. Of course, you could consider this an advantage, since
> everyone is on equal footing :)
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