erlmud

erlmud is an Erlang MUD-like server.

The idea is a game server that multiple clients can play. Considered clients are:

• Telnet. Like the old MUDs before. Also, a low hanging fruit to pick for early development.
• Some sort of web-driven client that modern browsers can access
• A thick client. GUI-style, I'm taking inspiration from Dwarven Fortress.

Dependencies

This project is an experiment in using Erlang/OTP and other libraries. I currently am making use of:

• sync for developmental reloading
• esupervisor for being able to manipulate supervisor architecture quickly and easily
• ranch for telnet!
• cowboy for websockets

Direction

Initially, scope will be small, focusing on as few features as necessary to (hopefully) make a non-trivial implementation and abstract after pain points are found.

Initial revival milestones

• A player that can "see" the attributes of rooms and navigate between them
• A serialized form for loading collections of rooms (areas?). Later abstract as a general fixture loader
• A client telnet for interacting as the player
• Multi-player support

As the above revival milestones have been met, it's time to merge into master!

Completed

• Use cowboy to create an initial web client interface

The TODO list

• Refactor protocol command handling into a common module
• Abstract groups of rooms under an "area" collection
• Write a parser for stock areas to test "area"s with