Timewasted

Recently I wrote a post, which I later deleted. I had started looking at working on a project called Evennia. It is a MUD/MUSH server written with Twisted and Django. My initial impression was that the project needed everyone to come together on a demo game, so people who were interested in using the code base would have something to go on. The idea was well received, however I realized it would pretty much just be me starting out. I was OK with this, until I got into it more. I realized that evennia was more of an engine that can be used to create a MUD engine. Much work would need to be done to get things into a state where it could be usable for a game. Looking at the MUD landscape, I don’t think my time would be well spent in a project to build the MUD engine. If the core code base were headed that way, it would be fine, but this isn’t the case. The core devs are interested only in the engine itself, not building a workable game from it.

Lessons learned: Put a little more effort into watching the community and reading the code/experimenting before you overtly volunteer on a project.

While I may have gotten a couple of people interested in doing more with evennia, I probably now look like a jerk. Oh well, on to other things and hopefully areas where my contributions can apply to a project that will see fruition. At the moment, I am closely looking at http://openhatch.org. Their entire purpose is to connect people with projects that could use their help. What a great idea. I’m thinking open hatch itself may be the project to contribute to. This time, I’ll spend a little more time checking it out first. On the upside, the project is done in python, with Django.