My friend and I are looking to rewrite an old BBS MUD.
The game is a few thousand rooms and purely text based with commands
issued by individual players and the game responding and updating
players stats based on the results of their commands.
I do not have a programming background, and I'm wondering about the
best way to approach writing it for GAE.
Attempting to translate the game to objects, I have the following
layout:
World object holds all of the zone objects, zone objects hold rooms,
room objects hold players, player objects hold inventory objects,
spellbook objects, and attributes. Then write appropriate methods for
manipulating the objects appropriately and returning the results.
I have a few questions though:
1. Is this a technically correct way of approaching the problem? If
not, what would be better? (keep in mind, I am not a professional
programmer by any means. I can find my way if I have something already
written to make changes, but I've never written anything from scratch
before). Would I populate all these objects, then write world to the
db and retrieve it for each player action? I have no idea how servlets
work to store state, or really how they work in general really.
Basically, how would I be storing and retrieving stored player
statistics which are constantly changing many times a second as
players play the game.
2. A key issue is the ability to push updates to players in real time,
and track individuals who are connected. For example, I would like the
ability to be able to call something like
room[someroomnum].sendtoall("Some message here"); to push a message to
all players in that room, or player[someplayernum].send("some message
here"); to send replies to players directly.
I understand this is a complex issue with the stateless http protocol,
but I have read some about the upcoming channel API which sounds like
it may offer this ability but I don't know enough to be certain.
Overall I'm looking to avoid devoting countless hours to this project
if it is going to be beyond my abilities to complete successfully.
Thanks very much for your time and consideration,
MLS
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