Part 1: What we have

Beginner Tutorial Parts

Introduction

Getting set up.

Part 1: What we have

A tour of Evennia and how to use the tools, including an introduction to Python.

Part 2: What we want

Planning our tutorial game and what to think about when planning your own in the future.

Part 3: How we get there

Getting down to the meat of extending Evennia to make our game

Part 4: Using what we created

Building a tech-demo and world content to go with our code

Part 5: Showing the world

Taking our new game online and let players try it out

In this first part we’ll focus on what we get out of the box in Evennia - we’ll get used to the tools, and how to find things we are looking for. We will also dive into some of things you’ll need to know to fully utilize the system, including giving you a brief rundown of Python concepts. If you are an experienced Python programmer, some sections may feel a bit basic, but you will at least not have seen these concepts in the context of Evennia before.

Lessons

• 1. Using commands and building stuff
• 2. The Tutorial World
• 3. Intro to using Python with Evennia
• 4. Overview of your new Game Dir
• 5. Introduction to Python classes and objects
• 6. Overview of the Evennia library
• 7. Making objects persistent
• 8. Adding custom commands
• 9. Parsing Command input
• 10. Creating things
• 11. Searching for things
• 12. Advanced searching - Django Database queries

Table of Contents

• 1. Using commands and building stuff
  • 1.1. Getting help
  • 1.2. Looking around
  • 1.3. Stepping Down From Godhood
  • 1.4. Creating an Object
  • 1.5. Get a Personality
  • 1.6. Pushing Your Buttons
  • 1.7. Making Yourself a House
  • 1.8. Reshuffling the World
  • 1.9. Adding a Help Entry
  • 1.10. Adding a World
• 2. The Tutorial World
  • 2.1. Gameplay
  • 2.2. Once you are done (or had enough)
  • 2.3. Uninstall the tutorial world
• 3. Intro to using Python with Evennia
  • 3.1. Evennia Hello world
  • 3.2. Making some text ‘graphics’
  • 3.3. Importing code from other modules
  • 3.4. Sending text to others
  • 3.5. Parsing Python errors
  • 3.6. Passing arguments to functions
  • 3.7. Finding others to send to
  • 3.8. Multi-line py
  • 3.9. Other ways to test Python code
  • 3.10. ipython
  • 3.11. Conclusions
• 4. Overview of your new Game Dir
  • 4.1. commands/
  • 4.2. server/
• 5. Introduction to Python classes and objects
  • 5.1. Importing things
  • 5.2. On classes and objects
  • 5.3. Summary
• 6. Overview of the Evennia library
  • 6.1. Where is it?
  • 6.2. An example of exploring the library
• 7. Making objects persistent
  • 7.1. Our first persistent object
  • 7.2. Typeclasses
  • 7.3. Modifying ourselves
  • 7.4. Extra Credits
  • 7.5. Conclusions
• 8. Adding custom commands
  • 8.1. Creating a custom command
  • 8.2. Summary
• 9. Parsing Command input
  • 9.1. More advanced parsing
  • 9.2. Adding a Command to an object
  • 9.3. Adding the Command to a default Cmdset
  • 9.4. Replace a default command
  • 9.5. Summary
• 10. Creating things
  • 10.1. Creating Objects
  • 10.2. Creating Accounts
• 11. Searching for things
  • 11.1. Main search functions
  • 11.2. Searching using Object.search
  • 11.3. What can be searched for
  • 11.4. Finding objects relative each other
  • 11.5. Summary
• 12. Advanced searching - Django Database queries
  • 12.1. Queryset field lookups
  • 12.2. Get that werewolf …
  • 12.3. Complex queries
  • 12.4. Annotations
  • 12.5. F-objects
  • 12.6. Grouping and returning only certain properties
  • 12.7. Conclusions