Platform 17
Back in the early 2010s, I was very into MUDs – text-based multi-player game worlds often hosted on servers accessible only via telnet connections. So I wanted to “modernize” the community by building a browser-based MUD engine.
This engine platform had a vanilla Javascript frontend, a Python Django backend, a self-hosted Postgres database, and an object oriented design philosophy (as was the case for MUD engines and games).
The last thing I worked on for this project was a Markov Chain chat bot of Bertrand Russell. From the development log:
I've been occupied with packing and other work, so not much done here. But:
- I updated README.md to reflect current status
- And made a Bertrand Russell Markov chain bot
- The source is Russell’s essays scraped from the web. I don’t think this is good enough, so I’ll have to acquire a text version of his Autobiography somehow
- I used markovify, but I want to come back and implement it from scratch to see what it’s like
A few rooms I’d worked on at the time:
- Secret Cabin
- Room of Holding
- The Interstellar Express
- The Astral Plane
- Platform 17
My favorite was the chargen room, The Interstellar Express:
