What's going on here?

[scionaltera]

Hi, thanks for taking a look at this. I didn't know if anybody uses Discussions on GitHub but it seems like it could work. I just wanted to talk a little bit about who I am, what this project is, and what direction it's going. In case anybody's interested in that kind of thing.

So, who are you?

I'm a software engineer at a big company. I've been writing code for more than 20 years, and Java for most of that time. I'm also a Dad and since this is a side project my progress is sporadic at times. I do try to answer issues and questions as quickly and thoroughly as I can. I'm really hoping that people try this thing out and get some benefit from it, and I'd love to have some people to talk to about it, and about MUDs in general.

And what is this, exactly?

I'm trying to build a MUD. I'm trying to design with the idea that other people could use it as a framework to build their own MUDs too, but my main goal is to build my MUD with modern technology. You log in with OAuth, use HTTPS instead of telnet, and generally use other modern security best practices but the thing looks and feels like a telnet session did back in 1996. One of the biggest departures from tradition is that I'm borrowing (with written permission) some of the game rules from Index Card RPG instead of going the usual d20 route. It should be interesting.