rawgl VS ranviermud

raw(gl) - Another World clone. C++, SDL2

Gregory Montoir have reimplemented the VM in C++ here:

https://github.com/cyxx/rawgl

He also did the same for Flashback (REminiscence)

Depending on where you live, it was either called "Out Of This World" or "Another World". It's a cool game, because the engine was written as a kind of "virtual machine" that interprets game bytecode. And the interpreter itself was pretty small, and easy to port to new platforms, so although the game started on the Amiga and Atari ST, it got a ton of ports over the years (literally a couple dozen systems). There are even open source versions of the game engine.

Ravenier - MUD server (text-based MMORPG). Javascript, Node.js

https://ranviermud.com JS

Last commit was oct 25th 2020 it looks like. https://github.com/RanvierMUD/ranviermud

ranvier looks great, though it might be more than I need for this project

Looking at the commit frequency on their GitHub, it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while. I'm not sure if anyone's working on it behind the scenes and just hasn't pushed to the main repository, but it's not a good sign that the last public push was 2 years ago.

Then that depends on the MUD engine you're planning to use. Evennia is in python, which may help since you're familiar with it, although it is a pretty large and complicated beast. Ranvier is a pretty simple and streamlined MUD engine that is written in Javascript and likely a great place to start if you're not an old MUD player who wants to recreate their old SMAUG or Circle favorite mud. It can be installed via node.js even. Both Ranvier and Evennia (I think) allow you to build the rooms interactively within a running mud (not 100% sure on that)

Indeed! Another one I forgot to mention is Ranvier in javascript and node.js which I think also allows websockets to communicate in ways other than telnet.

I been working on something similar (very slowly in the little free time I have), and found this: https://ranviermud.com