Features

Features

Disclaimer: This engine was originally written in C++ and JavaScript and is in the process of being rewritten in Rust (yada-yada). Not all of the following features may be functional in the Rust port yet.

• Support for both telnet (including ANSI colors, MCCP, MSDP and MSSP extensions) and HTML5 (WebSockets)
• Command-line OLC
• Graphical HTML5 map editor, with perspective view for designing 3D areas
• Game events propagate through rooms
  • Hear sounds and see visuals as they happen in nearby rooms
  • Sounds and visuals lose strength and become increasingly blurry over distance
  • Semi-realistic line-of-sight algorithm
• Dynamic room descriptions
  • Reflects positions and directions for items, exits and characters
  • Complements, not replaces, hand-written descriptions
• Logging of sessions (including IPs) and player commands
• Statistics tracking and visualization in the map editor
• Basic MUD commands
  • Movement and orientation (go, look, enter, examine, open, close)
  • Conversations (say, shout, talk, tell, gtalk)
  • Buying and handling items (buy, give, drop, get)
  • Container items (put ... into, get ... from)
  • Player groups (follow, lose, disband, gtalk)
  • Basic combat (kill, attack, wield, remove)
• Designed for minimal latency
  • Multi-threaded design
  • All game objects are in memory
  • Changes are synced to disk in separate thread

Further Reading

Take a look at some screenshots or read how to create your own game.

Read how to run your own server.