encrusted
RockMUD
| encrusted | RockMUD | |
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| 1 | 2 | |
| 127 | 155 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Rust | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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encrusted
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50 years of text games – 1977: Zork
One of the coolest technical aspects of early Infocom text adventure games is that most games weren't actually written using native assembly code for the platforms they ran on, and were instead compiled down to "z-code", a bytecode which ran on the "z-machine" virtual machine architecture. Z-machines are pretty niftly little bits of tech, as while they have a lot in common with regular 'ol machine code, the z-machine spec also includes dedicated instructions for fetching text input from the user, outputting text to the console, saving/loading data to disk, etc...
Having games target the abstract z-machine platform made it incredibly easy for Infocom to port games across platforms, as instead of re-writing every game from scratch, they could simply write a z-machine interpreter for said platform, and immediately gain access to their entire adventure game catalog!
A happy side-effect of all this is that it's super easy to run these classic adventure games on modern platforms, as instead of emulating the UI/UX of a 80s microcomputer, it's possible to write a z-machine interpreter that takes full advantage of modern GUIs.
One of my personal favorite modern z-machine interpreters is `encrusted` [1], which is written in Rust that runs on the Web thanks to WebAssembly. As a fun side-project, I ended up forking the project and making `embcrusted` [2], a z-machine interpreter that can run on embedded platforms without a full C-library. In a weekend or two of hacking, I was able to port a z-machine interpreter to my mechanical keyboard, in order to get the "authentic" experience of playing a text-adventure game through a teletype :)
[1] https://github.com/DeMille/encrusted
[2] https://github.com/daniel5151/embcrusted
RockMUD
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Feeling like you know javascript until you read other peoples code
There are some recurring patterns I see in other peoples' code, though. I just cloned https://github.com/MoreOutput/RockMUD and found lots of abbreviated names as variables, functions and parameters. Such as: e, r, fn, evt, s and so on.. As I have seen these before, I just figured they are very common BUT I can't find anyone on the god damn web who cares to elaborate on what they are.
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50 years of text games – 1977: Zork
Let me shamelessly plug a project I'll probably always be poking at: https://github.com/MoreOutput/RockMUD
I mainly played DIKU stuff so it feels a bit like that OOTB, but its very flexible (i hope).
What are some alternatives?
twinejs - Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
ranviermud - A node.js based MUD game engine
zork1 - Zork I (Microcomputer Version) by Infocom
cyo - Simple HTML Storytelling Engine
mud-eventemitter
lectrote - The IF interpreter in an Electron shell