So I overcame a big challenge with development of character creation and want to post to see if there are people out there interested in helping.

Please message me here, or Kassien on the game.

I completely forgot to check back on this thread, but people seem to have replied to upcoming questions just fine already. 🙂
You can also find a summary of what Evennia is under the Overview section on the main https://www.evennia.com homepage.
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CG menus have now been upgraded. They will now longer block the majority of commands (though they do block the inventory command, and replace help and quit with their own versions).

The new CG menus are also bi-directional now (meaning you can back up if you want to). Be aware that at various stages this will require erasing progress in order to prevent things such as a character setting their stats to qualify for a merit and then lowering the stat while keeping the merit.

Finally, the menus now support the ability to quit part way through and will allow you to resume where you left off when you type +cg again.

@Selerik This is a bit of a thread-necro, but I just noticed this topic and wondered if you ever continued this exploration or what the conclusion was?

Just in time for Shadowrun 6th edition. Coincidence? I don't think so. 😉

Also: Love moving async callbacks into a decorator. Significantly lower barrier to entry.

@tce said in Evscaperoom - a full playable multiplayer 'escape room' in Evennia with a layered story and multiple endings!:

Oh, hey. This reminds me of the quests from DragonMUD and gives me all kinds of nostalgia fuzzies 🙂

I never played DragonMUD but glad to hear this gives good vibes. 🙂
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Coming out of post retirement to say: "Right on @Griatch." 🙂

P.S. I just pulled your Evennia Container. I realized I needed a pet AWS project. With Shadowrun 6th edition right around the corner, the timing just seemed right.

@Thenomain @Arkandel yikes

@thenomain said in Make Evennia 'more accessible' - ideas?:

@griatch said in Make Evennia 'more accessible' - ideas?:

@sparks said in Make Evennia 'more accessible' - ideas?:

@griatch said in Make Evennia 'more accessible' - ideas?:

@Sparks
As said, I'm not the target audience, but it's a good start I think. Maybe you should (already in your README since that is the front-page of github), add links to the places in your code where people can find the concepts (finger, notifications etc) so they can quickly dive into the bits they are interested in.

That's an excellent idea. I've tried to clean it up a bit and add some hints on where to look.

Github even allows you to make clickable links to individual source files or lines of source files, so the opportunities to direct people into the code are many.
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You can also add comments per line, can’t you? It would be a good way to load up the commentary without adding it to the inline comments.

You can link to lines, but I don't think you can add comments to existing code in the GitHub interface - you can only do so on code that is under review. Even if you could I suspect it would be highly unstable way to keep comments since that line number is likely to change rapidly as the code evolves. Linking to a line faces the same problem, which is why we most often links to modules than to lines unless the module is very stable and not likely to change much.

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Ok, so the screen splitting is pretty badass.

Update: For our visually impaired developers I've now made it so each screen shot in the blog post above is a link to a text-only version of that screen. We have the luxury of using a text-based medium after all!
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@tehom said in I made a Python-with-Evennia tutorial (looking for feedback):

@cobaltasaurus said in I made a Python-with-Evennia tutorial (looking for feedback):

I, um, have a dumb question but so far I can't find it in the documents. How do I get information about an object-- for example location?

The @ex command is a staff command for returning a display with information on an object. You can also examine individual values in its attributehandler with @ex <object>/<attribute>.

For a lot of things I tend to rely on using @py, which is a powerful command used for executing arbitrary python code. Like I'll frequently do something like: @py x=self.search("whatever");x.do_some_other_call();self.msg(str(x.do_something(some_parameter))) to see the return value of calling a method on some object.

@Cobaltasaurus Also, for completeness, note that you can skip the initial @ for all commands if you want (so examine, py rather than @examine, @py etc) or use some other prefix you prefer like +, / or & (this is configurable in settings).
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Always good to hear about Evennia making progress!

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@Reason Thanks, that's appreciated!
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@Glitch

Okay! Too bad there weren't any more entries. The idea of contests like this is a good one to instill creativity and actually get stuff done with a deadline; ever since Optional Realities ran their contests I've pondered running something Evennia-centric along similar lines. Time will tell.
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