Mud game programming ron penton

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Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. It's no wonder? They also have an additional appeal for game programmers? The fundamentals of network basics are put to the test as you work your way through a simple MUD program. Put your new skills to work as you wrap things up with a more advanced, robust MUD. Pull out all the stops and test your creativity with the flexible aspects of your new MUD engine.

No current Talk conversations about this book. No reviews. Belongs to Series Game Development Series. I don't know whether there's a lot of that in Ron's book, but it's something to watch out for in general. As long as it has basic concepts that are applicable today, how old it is doesn't bother me.

I like that, a text based game, networking and multi-player are all rolled into one book. I'm not looking to make the latest and greatest at this early stage, I'm just looking to learn solid fundamentals. If there may be another alternative to Penton's book, feel free to mention it. Thanks for the tips. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with an older book.

I'm just saying that bit-rot of the Internet means that if it's older than a couple years, any supporting web sites have probably vanished. Such is life within Al Gore's marvelously flawed intarweb pipes. Actually I am having trouble finding anything. Does anyone know the exact url for Penton's old page with the updated code, as that is what webarchive needs to perform a search.

Antheus It's quite obvious. Though it doesn't seem as if any kind of additional content was ever published. Between UTF8, ubiquity of cheap and free hosting, abundant RAM and widely available databases, scripting languages took over for such tasks, allowing same to be achieved with a few lines of code, compared to thousands in C. And often at no real cost at typical scale.

MUDs being a dead genre also doesn't do much to warrant extra investment. What such books will be mostly or completely missing are some of very important changes in development. From cloud hosting, automated deployments, devenv management, version control as integral part of development pipeline, web interfaces and automated testing, the whole management aspect provides more value than code itself and is crucial for rapid development.

All of this contributed to projects going from 2 years to 2 months or 2 weeks, idea to completion. It also shifts focus from "doing it perfectly right the first time" towards experimentation and incremental improvement which tend to have positive effect on most projects and drastically reduce effort needed. Perhaps the biggest difference starting after or so would be complete absence of C.

I'm not sure that is entirely true. Another group uses a bit of Java for distribution, mostly because they can re-use a bunch of open source already in that language.

This means that a lot of more platforms became possible contenders for solving a lot more different projects -- and the world is doing a lot more distributed computing projects now, than 10 or 20 years ago.

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