smcamerons-python-adventure VS space-nerds-in-space

I don't know if this counts, but I wrote a parser for "the ship's computer" in my game, "Space Nerds in Space". It's described here: https://scaryreasoner.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/speech-recogn...

I also wrote some toy "interactive fiction" things (with less sophisticated parsers) in python and Lua as a way to gain familiarity with those languages, not that they are very interesting in and of themselves, though they demonstrate a fairly standard technique behind these kinds of games in a compact way.

https://github.com/smcameron/smcamerons-python-adventure

https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/blob/maste...

Here's a trivial text adventure in python I made when I was starting to learn python: https://github.com/smcameron/smcamerons-python-adventure

The point though is to start with a very simple, well known, text only type of game, like interactive fiction or a "text adventure", or whatever they call Zork like games nowadays, which in its simplest incarnation is (or at least can be) pretty simple (i.e, mine is about 400 lines of Lua), but can be made arbitrarily more complex by adding new types of objects, object interactions, verbs, and sentence syntax that it can understand. It will give you a good feel for how to organize a Lua program, how to deal with data structures ("tables" in Lua), etc. It's simple enough, and being text only, you don't get caught up in details of the problem that don't actually have much to do with the language itself, but complex enough that you have to think a bit. I find it a good problem for new languages (I did the same thing when learning python.)

I don't know if this counts, but I wrote a parser for "the ship's computer" in my game, "Space Nerds in Space". It's described here: https://scaryreasoner.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/speech-recogn...

I also wrote some toy "interactive fiction" things (with less sophisticated parsers) in python and Lua as a way to gain familiarity with those languages, not that they are very interesting in and of themselves, though they demonstrate a fairly standard technique behind these kinds of games in a compact way.

https://github.com/smcameron/smcamerons-python-adventure

https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/blob/maste...

I have this book, which I got about 10 years ago, and found it very helpful when writing my own (primitive, not even close to state of the art) game in C, and I have recommended this book to others on reddit many times over the years. My copy of the book still has the CD inside, never opened. I never looked at it, mainly because I found there's no need, the algorithms are not very long for the most part, and I needed to understand them and fit them into my codebase anyway.

Space Nerds in Space - multi-player starship bridge simulator so you can captain your starship through adventures with your friends.

Space Nerds in Space (github) is an open source spaceship bridge simulator so you can captain your starship through space adventures with your friends. Each player mans a station on a simulated starship. There are stations for Navigation, Weapons, Engineering/Damage Control, Comms, Science, and a gamemaster station. It's written in C, with a Lua API for writing "mission scripts". Multiple starships can be present in the simulation at once if you can manage to gather enough friends to crew them. It even supports speech recognition and natural language parsing if you're so inclined.

This is what gaseous-giganticus uses. Combined with some other techniques, it can help with making some clouds for earthlike planets, but not in real time. Mentioned here previously. The process I use for making earthlike planets with clouds for Space Nerds in Space is described here.

As an example, I made this game which is basically a multiplayer star trek game where each player is a member of the crew of a spaceship. There are "scenarios" -- little missions -- that are coded in Lua, some written by me, some by other people. You can see them here: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/tree/master/share/snis/luascripts/MISSIONS There's a Lua API my game provides described here: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/blob/master/doc/lua-api.txt

Not an MMORPG, just a LAN game really, but my spaceship bridge simulator Space Nerds in Space is open source (GPL2) and in C. The network server architecture is pretty simple, TCP, and a read thread and a write thread per client, which would be a bad design if there were a large number clients, but for less than 30 or so clients (realistic number of clients is 5-10, leaning towards 5), it's absolutely fine (KISS principle). There's some documentation about how it all works here: Hacking on Space Nerds in Space and the website for the game is here: https://spacenerdsinspace.com

Continued this discussion on github: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/discussions/322

I have an open source game project I've been working on since 2012 or so. I have received patches from 23 people during that time. Maybe 4 or 5 have made significant contributions (more than drive-by bug fixes, and I'm counting myself in those numbers). Well, you can take a look for yourself and see how the contribution graphs look