NAME

MUGS-Core - Core modules for MUGS (Multi-User Gaming Services)

SYNOPSIS

# Setting up a simple MUGS-Core development environment
mkdir MUGS
cd MUGS
git clone git@github.com:Raku-MUGS/MUGS-Core.git
cd MUGS-Core
zef install --deps-only --exclude="pq:ver<5>:from<native>" .
raku -Ilib bin/mugs-admin create-universe

DESCRIPTION

NOTE: See the top-level MUGS repo for more info.

MUGS-Core is the core of MUGS (Multi-User Gaming Services), a Raku-based platform for game service development. In other words, it is a set of basic services written in the Raku language for creating client-server and multi-user games. It abstracts away the boilerplate of managing player identities, tracking active games and sessions, sending and receiving messages and actions, and so forth.

This Proof-of-Concept release includes a WebSocket-based game server, simple admin and developer tools, and simple "games" intended primarily for testing. The game server can store data using either an internal ephemeral/test storage driver, or in SQLite databases on disk using a storage driver based on the Red ORM.

ROADMAP

MUGS is still in its infancy, at the beginning of a long and hopefully very enjoyable journey. There is a draft roadmap for the first few major releases but I don't plan to do it all myself -- I'm looking for contributions of all sorts to help make it a reality.

CONTRIBUTING

Please do! :-)

In all seriousness, check out the CONTRIBUTING doc (identical in each repo) for details on how to contribute, as well as the Coding Standards doc for guidelines/standards/rules that apply to code contributions in particular.

The MUGS project has a matching GitHub org, Raku-MUGS, where you will find all related repositories and issue trackers, as well as formal meta-discussion.

More informal discussion can be found on IRC in Libera.Chat #mugs.

AUTHOR

Geoffrey Broadwell gjb@sonic.net (japhb on GitHub and Libera.Chat)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

MUGS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.