Griatch

Thanks a lot, this is great and very encouraging to hear. :D That said, Evennia is, of course, a collaborative project, I couldn't do it without the help of the great Evennia community!

Thanks on behalf of developers/community/contributors, this is high praise and a treat/big encouragement for any OSS developer to hear! :D

Evennia supports using LLMs for your NPCs if you like :)

Yes, I think this is very true; following the Evennia discord, there's a lot of newcomers in there - newcomers to game development or even to programming overall, using Evennia/MUDs as a vehicle to learn.

Not to mention that a graphical MMORPG is one of the most expensive online games you can develop. Whereas a MUD (a text-based MMORPG if you will) can be created by a lone dev or small hobby team (not to say it's simple, no multiplayer game is, but it's at least achievable).

The roguelike bits are mainly client-side; there are people using Evennia to develop roguelikes (not sure if any are actually released, but it can be done).

Evennia does have a web admin, but main development work is intended to be done in Python code, really; what would be akin to 'hardcode' in LPMUDs, I presume. Evennia's extremely extendable, but not so much over the telnet command line; the choice was made to instead make it easier to develop a game in Evennia using modern dev workflows, using version control and proper code editors. All a matter of taste of course. :)

Evennia is Python though, not lua. But yeah, there's a lot of people wanting to make MUDs. Makes for a nice learning project too.