UC MUD Code Planning

Interface and code

• Web based?
• AJAX?
• Rails?

Brainstorming

1. Have defined sections of the page for basic ways to interact with game

• • Room/environment view box
  • Inventory
    • Item view
  • Other characters/NPCs
    • separate from room? or basically like the room is a container and a subwindow that shows what's in the room--items, players, npcs. Things can go in and out without changing the view of the environment.
  • Combat
  • Conversations
    • Include emotes here? basically, an action window?
    • Split between chat lines/tells/room actions? If we have chat lines/tells

1. Obvious and non-obvious methods of interaction

• • Obvious methods (go north, wield sword, don armor, press button) as clickable links
  • Non-obvious methods not displayed, but given an empty text box to input commands

1. Way to script things?
2. Mobile site?
3. Telnet option

• • Web interface a wrapper around all information given, but with traditional telnet interface of many lines coming at you?
  • Or telnet interface with a text-based browser style? Keep the different windows?

Database

• Rooms
• Items
• Characters
• Monsters/NPCs

Interaction

• Modeling NPCs as computer-controlled PCs
• Objects with built in calls for actions?
• Characters as special kinds of items?
• Rooms as special kinds of items?

UC_MUD