AlcheMUD

This is a very early attempt to create a Multi-User-Dungeon using the programming language Elixir.

Some inspiration is taken from the never-finished Erlmud by zxq9.

Changelog:

2016-05-11

• Barebones start

2016-05-14

• Location manager
• Loading locations from persistence
• Connecting locations through ways
• re-connecting locations+ways whenever locations go down and come back up.
• adding Entities to locations.
• Telnet-listener using Ranch.

2016-05-15

• Better support for Telnet stuff
• Connection Abstraction layer

2016-05-18

• Player logging in: Player processes, PlayerManager, PlayerSupervisor
• Characters: Being started by a player, inhabiting the world.
• Emotes/'say' commands.

2016-05-19

• Players seeing each others messages.
• Entities seeing each others messages.
• Simple time-based entity.
• Movement!!!
• Commands that are passed to the character (and then to the world)

Roadmap

• Global commands (Chat, options)
• Entities as state-machines
• Entities can be containers
• Entities can be moved between containers
• Persistence of world -> hard disk.
• Loading of persisted world.
• Inform7-style worldbuilding syntax?
• (How to implement difference between 'cyclic (resetting every so often)' world and 'persistent' (player data) world)?

Maybe sometime in the future

• MXP, GMCP, etc. MUD-protocol support.
• Text-writing using markdown -> compiles to either ANSI-escaped telnet, MXP, HTML for websocket-connections, etc.
• MPS-support with sounds/music <3 !
• World-building from within.