Worldforge | Worldforge - the Free MMORPG project

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The Worldforge project lets you create your own virtual world. Everything we do is 100% Free Software.

We provide servers, clients, tools, protocol and media. You provide the world.

What do you want to do?

I want to
play the game! I want to
create worlds! I want to
help develop!

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The Worldforge project works to provide tools, technologies, servers, clients, protocol, media and a community to allow anyone to create their own virtual world. Everything we do is 100% Free Software. That means that anyone can use and build on our work.

Perhaps you have an idea for an awesome MMORPG? Or perhaps you want to simulate a working ecosystem? Might be that you want to use an online simulation for education? Or perhaps you just want to have fun in a totally open world. All of this is possible with Worldforge.

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We provide a default medieval MMORPG world which we call Deeds. This should serve as your starting ground. Since everything we do is Free Software you can build on this, adapting it to your liking.

The world is a living thing. Plants grow and wither. Animals roam the world, eating and getting eaten. Both enemies and friends behave intelligently. The Worldforge system provides unprecedented flexibility. Only your imagination sets the limit.

Latest News

— October 27, 2024

The Squall assets sync library

One of the latest additions to the tools used by the Worldforge project is the Squall library. This small library aims to provide a one-stop solution to Worldforge for any kind of assets synchronization. We had a couple of different use cases that we wanted to support. Our clients should be able to provide a base set of assets. But each server should then be able to update the assets used.

— November 7, 2023

Moving to a monorepo

The Worldforge project contains a large selection of different libraries, server, client and tools. For quite some while these have all been spread out into separate repositories. One of our initial thoughts was to release these components separately so that various third party projects could use them. However, as time went by it became apparent that this vision never materialized. None of our libraries have seen use outside Worldforge. Thus is was only natural to combine the components that are in active use into one monorepo, which can be found here.

— January 10, 2023

Cyphesis Python docs

The Cyphesis server is mainly written in C++ and provides scripting though Python. All the rules that make the world tick are written in Python. However, so far there hasn’t been a good way to provide good documentation for the bindings. Any Python develop would have had to either look at previous code, or look up the actual bindings themselves. With a recent change we now provide automated Python “stubs”, which helps a lot.

— December 13, 2022

New site - same as old

We’ve updated the main site. It’s now the same as the old, but instead of using a CMS (Concrete5) we’ve opted for a simpler approach using the Hugo static site generator. Everything should look pretty much the same as before. We’ve now also removed the ability to comment on posts and pages, as this only served as a magnet for spambots. The source code for the site can now be found at Github.

— June 17, 2020

Simple rules combined to complex gameplay

A while ago I was asked about an example of how the Worldforge rules work. The focus was especially on how a series of simple rules allows for more complex game mechanics. Since I wrote down an example of how consumption works I thought I might as well post it here, since it provides a good example of how we think about game rules. One example could be the “bread” entity type.