It’s been a few days since I’ve posted the news regarding the Mud Creator Engine replacing the TBG Engine, so I thought I would write a blog on the Mud Creator’s progress.

   The engine itself has probably 80% of the objects it will need created, however only about 30% of the engine has been coded. The majority of my time has been spent in just getting a tool kit constructed so I can start testing the engine out. The engine is pretty straight forward offering various objects that can be created and linked together to create your game. You can create a new class, race and ability, and all three of those can be applied to the player character to adjust it’s various stats and skills used throughout the game. The actual implementation of the objects has yet to be wrote.

   I have spent the last couple of days re-designing the Mud Tool Kit, as the previous design was really straightforward, but limited me to being constrained to a single window size (similar to that of the TBG Engine) and I wanted to give the Tool Kit a unique look and feel, and I have now accomplished that by creating a complete new User Interface design that really stands out and offers developers a Graphical Link to the Engine, so they can create any object they want and add it into their project graphically. Even with this new re-design I still managed to contain everything within a single window, and keep it fairly clean and un-cluttered. The Tool Kit allows users to drag and drop objects from an object library into their rooms. If they want to link a door to another room, they can drag and drop a room ontop of the door, and the link will be done for them!

   I think this version of the User Interface might have a little bit of a higher learning curve, but in the end it will provide the developer with the best experience during the creation of their project. So to demonstrate I have included a screen shot of the Tool Kit (Still Under Development), the first image is how the tool kit was originally going to be designed, and the second shot is the new re-design I did this week, and will keep until the project is finished.

Mud Creator Tool Kit Original Design


Mud Creator Tool Kit Re-Design