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hermeticum is the next version of [tildemush](https://github.com/vilmibm/tildemush): a full rewrite of the alpha release.
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there are two major differences: Go instead of Python and Lua instead of a from-scratch scripting language for game objects.
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Otherwise, this is a pretty faithful implementation of what tildemush was planned to be (and mostly implemented in the alpha).
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## but why
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the alpha version of tildemush does work! you can script objects and make rooms and do all sorts of things. Unfortunately, it:
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- gets laggy with any real number of users
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- has memory leaks
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- consists of very poorly abstracted spaghetti code
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- has a half-implemented client
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- is extremely hard to add to
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- has a very brittle, very fragile, 100% hacks scripting language for game objects
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- has a very inelegant and inefficient system for handling revisions to game objects code
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I feel very strongly that a total rewrite is necessary. I also feel very strongly that Go is a better choice for this kind of application than Python.
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## new stuff from tildemush
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- API is grpc/protobuff based
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- client uses `tview` which I find more pleasant to work with than `urwid`
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- WITCH is powered by https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua
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- a much simpler approach to script editing
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- I'm going to take a much simpler approach to scripts than I did in tildemush: objects just get one text column for their script with no revision tracking.
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- this can totally change in the future but I don't think it's necessary for a beta
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- "cron" system: WITCH scripts will respond to a "tick" event and decide if enough time has passed for them to re-call their callback.
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- "global chat" since it is my hope that hermeticum can largely supercede IRC on https://tilde.town , I intend to have an always available global chat in a pane in the client so users can feel like a part of a "main" while still wandering around and exploring rooms.
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- "loudness" system. this is not fully designed yet, but events should be "audible" in a regressed way for objects that are contained by things contained in a room where a verb is executed.
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## the name though
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the name "tildemush" has never quite sat right with me. I don't know why. I'm a
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lot more pleased with `hermeticum`, which describes what it is I'm really
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inspired by when it comes to MU* engines: the spaces a mind can create to store
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wisdom. I like the idea of mapping these mental spaces into a computer.
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## docs
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I haven't moved over any design docs or notes or anything like that. Refer to the tildemush repo for that kind of stuff.
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## development
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- to regenerate the API code: `protoc --go_out=. --go_opt=paths=source_relative --go-grpc_out=. --go-grpc_opt=paths=source_relative proto/hermeticum.proto`
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- database connection currently hardcoded to a postgresql database called `hermeticum` owned by `vilmibm` who has pw `vilmibm`. if you want to hack on this locally, update the call to `NewDB` accordingly. Eventually this will be handled via environment variables.
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