[gopher] Running a MUD, was: Re: cgod - a new prototype gopher daemon

[Wolfgang Faust]

On Dec 24, 2014 3:37 PM, "Kevin Veroneau" <kevin at veroneau.net> wrote:
> So, the people who don't know Python very well can communicate to the
> people who do on what types on room and object personalities they would
> like to see available.  Then on a master list of sorts, we can list all
> the current room and object types available in-game currently.  So,
> when you go to build something, you can check this list, either via an
> in-game command or on a Gopherhole to see what "typeclass" or "script"
> you want to assign to your newly created room or object.
I've no idea if Evennia supports this (probably not), but LambdaMOO has
support for building arbitrary clients and servers in the LambdaMOO
language. MOO Canada had (it seems to be down at the moment) a gopher
server with which you could browse the world. In case it comes back up, the
address is gopher://moo.ca/

Incidentally, someone has also written for LambdaMOO a "Generic Gopher
Tablet" which acts as an in-world gopher client that you can interact with
and pass around to other people in the world. So, for instance, you can
browse to a site and then hand the tablet to someone else, who can then
read the page you have browsed to.

The problem with a LambdaMOO server, of course, is that it uses a language
all its own. Of course, you could consider this an advantage, since
everyone is on equal footing :)
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