Better documentation pending.

Is this playable?

No, this is an 'engine' for creating game stuff.

How do I run it?

Get Lua and do lua moloch.lua. Right now you also need LuaRocks and at least do luarocks install yuescript. There are other LuaRocks packages involved, which is a list that is currently rapidly changing. It'll be more well established here later.

How do I poke around and modify it?

You need Lua. We use Yuescript and previously we used MoonScript. Anything that can compile to Lua will work.

There's no interface or menu or anything for configuring or otherwise setting up the game?

There's gonna be! If you're looking for a 'game' or useful 'engine' right now, though, this ain't it just yet.

YASDK would be impossible without

• Yuescript
  • I can't stress enough just how fucking awesome Yuescript is.
• MoonScript
  • I can't stress enough just how fucking awesome MoonScript is.
  • There would be no Yuescript without MoonScript.
• BearLibTerminal
  • YASDK would not exist without this.
• MoonLibs
  • These in particular:
    • MoonSndFile - bindings to libsndfile
    • MoonAL - bindings to OpenAL
• 1bardesign's stuff
  • ferris was the model for YASDK's ECS-like contraptions.
  • Some batteries were selectively pulled and rewritten.
• rotLove
  • A whole lot of what's in class/ was ported from here and made, in my opinion, infinitely more portable.
  • rotLove is a port of rot.js for Love2D, so technically this credit is owed to rot.js as well. I've never opened rot.js, though.
• FixedSys Excelsior
  • This is the font shipped with YASDK. It features a hell of a lot, is big enough for my poorly-protected vision, and still manages to stay fully on-point to the aesthetics of terminal games and trve roguelikes.
• Loved ones
  • Friends
  • Family
  • Role models
    • You know who you are; I wouldn't be any serious depth into game development without you
  • Everyone else who supports and listens to my utterly deranged nonsense surrounding my projects
• My wife
  • Still a loved one; she just needed her own spot

Inspirations

• Minetest
• UnRogue Engine
  • I would have taken to using this if I weren't wholly bent on using MoonScript for all my creations.
  • Seriously, check it out!
• Dwarf Fortress
• The Ground Gives Way
• Space Station 13
  • ...conceptually. For a variety of reasons that differ wherever you happen to look, it's not great. It's got some great ideas, that said.
• Krigarheit
  • I wish I had something more concrete to link, but the guy behind this managed to do a lot of the same things I wanted to do first, the bastard!
• There's definitely more I don't remember

Licenses are all in LICENSE. Licenses of the libraries depended upon by these thirdparty libraries and so on and so forth can be found within those listed above, not here.