MudNode is an experimental MUD system written in NodeJS and played in your browser with WebSockets.
You need to have NodeJS installed on your system, then from a command prompt inside the folder you extracted this repository to run npm install.
It will automatically download and install any NPM packages required to run MudNode.
Once NPM package dependencies are installed, you can run it with node index.js. This will start the server back-end and also serve the front-end client on localhost:8080. Direct your browser to http://localhost:8080/ and register your username to begin.
Dynamic description templates can be created through the grammar module, and running the text() method with a template will process all the tokens (denoted with the [* and ] characters) and return a generated sentence.
/**
* Example of the grammar processor.
*/
grammar.set('Greeting', '[*Hello], [*friend].')
grammar.set('Hello', ['Greetings', 'Hello', 'Hi', '[*Extended Hello]'])
grammar.set('friend', ['buddy', 'friend', 'pal'])
grammar.set('Extended Hello', [`Such a pleasure to make your acquaintance`, `I'm delighted to meet you`])
console.log(grammar.text('[*Greeting]'))
The above code will produce output sentences like this:
I'm delighted to meet you, pal.
Greetings, pal.
Hello, friend.
Hi, buddy.
Hi, friend.
Such a pleasure to make your acquaintance, pal.
A more detailed documentation of the grammar module is available here.