Hello, world!

I've wanted to participate in a game jam for a couple of years now but never really found the time or inspiration. I was browsing the open game jams for something interesting looking and I saw Enter the Mud. I figured it would be fun and a nice way to spend my quiet hours in between taking care of my newborn and here we are.

This is nowhere near complete. My big goals infrastructurally:

• Move away from BoltDB to something more intelligent: Postgres and/or a decent distributed key/value store.
• Make this scalable: all the game state is stored in memory in a single process. Again if something distributed could work on a cloud provider this game could scale out better.
• Refactor the backends/frontends (this should take just a few hours). The BoltDB implementation is interwoven with the abstract interfaces, pull out the Bolt parts so it's more obvious how to implement against other backing data stores.
• Write a web frontend. I know React, it would be a fun project.  

And gameplay-wise:

• I'm halfway to a decent text command based interface. This would make it play more like a Mud.
• More interesting locale generators: Id like to be able to generate villages and other interesting features. I want to add a template-based generator for pre-baked content (especially for quests).
• Level-conscious enemies. Nothing but weak enemies litter the map now, but I don't want new players running into high-level baddies.
• Quest system. Pre-bake pluggable quests like "I need you to fetch X from Y," build a nearby dungeon with an X, give XP or whatever when the quest is beaten.
• NPCs: enemies exist, now to make neutral dudes.
• Inventory system: I want drops, I want picking up, and eventually a trade/sell stack.
• Equipment: weave this in with inventory. Equipment for various slots, weight limits, buffs and weaks.