Vs 5 Suggestion - Packaging, creation and sharing
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 1:11 am
This isn't my idea (although I have my own opinions on it). OIther people have bandied it about on discord, but it isn't here and to me it makes sense as something to improve QOL for inexperienced new users, which is the theme of Mudlet 5 so, here goes.
A centralised package/module repository. Allow package creators to publish to it easily regardless of how/where they write their code. Allow people to rate packages and write comments. Lots of filters so players can find scripts to suit them quickly.
If a new, inexperienced player can locate a set of scripts for their mud, choose and install them from within mudlet, and receive notifications of updates/fixes, seems like the newbie experience will be a better one.
How many times have you looked at a thread for some script/system on your game's forum, and seen yet another method of delivering the package to the users, and yet another 13 pages of 'I installed it as you said but it won't work' questions, followed by people gently (or not so gently) explaining that they did something wrong in step 132 of the install instructions?
Or even 'does anyone have the most recent version of this script? The link in the original post has expired...
A centralised package/module repository. Allow package creators to publish to it easily regardless of how/where they write their code. Allow people to rate packages and write comments. Lots of filters so players can find scripts to suit them quickly.
If a new, inexperienced player can locate a set of scripts for their mud, choose and install them from within mudlet, and receive notifications of updates/fixes, seems like the newbie experience will be a better one.
How many times have you looked at a thread for some script/system on your game's forum, and seen yet another method of delivering the package to the users, and yet another 13 pages of 'I installed it as you said but it won't work' questions, followed by people gently (or not so gently) explaining that they did something wrong in step 132 of the install instructions?
Or even 'does anyone have the most recent version of this script? The link in the original post has expired...