Damask MUD

This is a MUD engine! It's got some reasonable goals and some far-flung goals.

Current status

The MUD isn't currently useful for anything.

Dependencies

You must install the sqlite development packages or otherise acquire a copy of the sqlite3 static library. On Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

Reasonable goals

I want Damask to feature:

• online creation
• player housing
• sensible scripting
• support for large worlds (100,000 rooms)
• support for large player bases (1,000 simultaneous players)
• optional full persistence

"Full persistence" won't be desirable for many people. It means that, if I walk up to the Broken Drum and kill Stren Withel, Stren Withel is dead, and stays dead even when I reboot the server. If I drop a sword on the ground, that sword isn't going to disappear on the next reboot.

Player housing is, largely, a controlled subset of full persistence, where items are persistent in a limited area.

Far-flung goals

These are goals that are difficult to achieve or that I don't quite know how to achieve:

• procedurally generated worlds (though I won't match Dwarf Fortress)
• NPCs behaving like real people

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.