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Re: Building Gameworlds in PuzzleScript

2021-12-30

After reading the great Gemlog about PuzzleScript by [~lettuce], I spent many hours perusing Github looking for what development has been done on it, and of course also trying out several PuzzleScript games.

The reason I have been looking at "simple" game systems is that I want to find ones that are suited to or compatible with terminal and text-only applications. For a while now I have been searching for some kind of application that would make it possible to communicate with chat and voice combined with a 2D+ world in which the user can walk around using the arrow keys, performing simple actions using the CONTROL key and push-to-talk using ALT. Proximity-based chatting and talking would be possible to create an immersive terminal world experience.

Adding voice could be easy by using Mumble with its proximity feature. There is even a command-line version of a Mumble client called Barnard. And there is a HTML5 browser version of Mumble too, so there could be a browser and terminal-based solution which would attract more users (also non-technical ones, like your great grandmother).

What would make the virtual world more fun would be the possibility for a PuzzleScript-like language to be used to create enhancements to the virtual environment. To be most suited to the terminal, I would rather see the use of UTF-8 text characters and color instead of pixels (like what PuzzleScript currently uses).

To make this really stand out it would be great if we could have the following:

ability to load worlds via Gemini protocol
anyone can help design/script the world using simple methods
text services can be hosted in virtualspace (Gemini pages or books, ssh services)
live interaction using decentralized protocol Cabal
voice interaction possible in worlds that have a Murmur instance
proximity defines who someone is talking to, making larger conferences possible without interruptions
possibility to do world-building/alterations over Gemini and Cabal
only that which server host allows should be changeable to avoid sabotage
nice-to-have: fragmented sectors are wildlands that exist only on Cabal and can be changed by anyone

Wondering what others think about this crazy idea.

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