Tutorials and Howto’s

The documents in this section aims to teach how to use Evennia in a tutorial or a step-by-step way. They often give hints on about solving a problem or implementing a particular feature or concept. They will often refer to the components or concepts docs for those that want to dive deeper.

Beginner Tutorial

Recommended starting point! This will take you from absolute beginner to making a small, but full, game with Evennia. Even if you have a very different game style in mind for your own game, this will give you a good start.

• Beginner Tutorial

Howto’s

• Coding FAQ
• Command Prompt
• Command Cooldown
• Command Duration
• Default Exit Errors
• Manually Configuring Color
• Tutorial Tweeting Game Stats

Mobs and NPCs

• Tutorial NPCs listening
• Tutorial Aggressive NPCs
• NPC shop Tutorial

Vehicles

• Building a mech tutorial
• Tutorial Vehicles

Systems

• Making a Persistent object Handler
• Gametime Tutorial
• Help System Tutorial
• Mass and weight for objects
• Weather Tutorial
• Coordinates
• Adding room coordinates in your game
• Dynamic In Game Map
• Static In Game Map
• Arxcode installing help

Web-related tutorials

• Add a wiki on your website
• Web Character Generation
• Web Character View Tutorial

Deep-dives

• Parsing command arguments, theory and best practices
• Understanding Color Tags
• Evennia, ANSI and Xterm256
• ANSI
• Xterm256
• ANSI Color Tags in Evennia
• Evennia for roleplaying sessions
• Evennia for Diku Users
• Evennia for MUSH Users
• Tutorial for basic MUSH like game

Old tutorials

These will be replaced by the Beginner Tutorial, but remain here until that is complete.

• Implementing a game rule system
• Turn based Combat System
• Making a sittable object