Pythelix is a flexible and dynamic text-based engine for creating multi-user games (MU*).

It is built in Elixir, but ALL of the game world can be created using Python-like scripting, hence the name.

If you’re new to Pythelix and want to learn by doing, head over to the getting started documentation, which will show you how to download, start and build with Pythelix.

Features

• No programming experience needed to create your world, no matter how extensive.
• Worldlets are a great way to build alone or in collaboration.
• Commands are simply scripts written in a friendly, Python-like language that you can learn as you go. Menus behave similarly.

• Pythelix is maintaing by a game designer and developer, so that important feature have been considered:

  • Match: how to create commands that work on entities in the room (like other players and objects).
  • Names: how to write entities with specific names depending on who sees them (handling pluralization, invisible players that remain visible to administrators and so on).
  • Real and game-specific time: how to handle real time and game-specific calendars.
  • Search: search entities in the world based on specific criteria (like “find the account with the username XXX”).
  • Stackables: handling entities that appear in great numbers (like gold coin, bills, crafting resources…).
  • Password management: how to handle passwords without storing them in your database.
  • Prompts: how to handle a prompt (editing it, disabling it).
  • Random-string generators: how to randomly create unique string identifiers (phone numbers, licence plates and so on).
  • Encoding: how to handle accented characters in your games.
• The engine itself is extremely fast and can maintain high availability.
• Errors don’t crash the server. At worst, they will forward a message to the user (and administrators) that can be easily fixed.
• Maintenance is simple, and there’s virtually no need to restart the server (why not keep it running for years or even decades?).
• A web interface and customizable website are provided, in addition to a Telnet connection.

Installation

Head to the getting started documentation for detailed instructions about how to install and start Pythelix.