In the Maldorne non-profit organization we (we? who are we?) host several retro-online games, develop or collaborate in most of them, and create tools and frameworks to help those who are yet working with these technologies.
We created Ciudad Capital, the online fantasy game, and have been working on it since 2003.
We are also developing the Hexagon mudlib/framework and tools, which helps developers in creating their own games.
Timeline
Next milestone
Hexagon v2.1 Daggerfall
The following milestone will include a full revision of communication and movement commands, skills, and the first version of locations, an alternative to rooms where data and behavior are separated, making every location fully modifiable and customizable by code, in execution time.
Stable version
Hexagon v2.0 Castle Black
The third milestone includes a revision of every command, advances the translation process trying to have every main system in english again, and has finished the first complete demo game: demo-fantasy.
It means the move from alpha version to a beta version, stable and usable enough for other users to create their own games or porting old games from other drivers to DGD using Hexagon.
Migrating from older platforms
Hexagon v1.21.09 Beregost
The second big milestone, Beregost, includes a revision of every initiator object, the skeleton for the multigame system, continuous integration through Github Actions, finishes the conversion of all the remaining basic object types from ccmudlib, and includes for the first time a piece of a demo game.
- 25/09/2021
v1.21.09 Beregost
New versioning names
Hexagon v1.20.09 Anduin
I started working with milestones in Github, naming every big milestone. The first one, Anduin, includes the multilanguage system on compilation time (translates contents of files during compilation), separates user and player objects, and creates the new login basic user type to manage connections.
- 01/10/2020
v1.20.09 Anduin
We started moving from MudOS to DGD
Hexagon v1.19.05
After years of creating content for Ciudad Capital using MudOS as our MUD driver, I started coding a conversion to the DGD driver.
- 07/05/2019
v1.19.05 - 27/04/2019
v1.19.04 - 14/01/2019
v1.19.01 - 18/07/2017
v1.17.07 - 26/08/2014 First commit in the
Hexagoncode repository, this was an experiment to see if it was possible to use theDGDdriver, and evolved with the idea of being the second version of Ciudad Capital.
Work goes on with ccmudlib
ccmudlib v0.8
Some more working on ccmudlib and Ciudad Capital, now in professional hostings (OVH and AWS during different years).
- 03/2012
v0.8 - 11/2011
v0.7.1 - 12/2010
v0.7 - ??/2010
v0.6.2 - ??/2010
v0.6.1 - 02/2010
v0.6 - 18/12/2009
v0.5
Final year project in Software Engineering
ccmudlib v0.4
ccmudlib v0.4 was the foundation for my final year project in Software Engineering (BSc and MSc) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
- 01/12/2009 Final year project.
First versions of the mudlib and the game
ccmudlib v0.3
For some years I just work on the MUD from time to time, adding features and content to the game, still hosted in a dedicated machine in my own home.
- 13/05/2009
v0.4 - 27/04/2009
v0.3.6 - 25/03/2009
v0.3.5 - 04/08/2008
v0.3.4 - 07/07/2005
v0.3.3 - 26/10/2004
v0.3.2 - 19/12/2003
v0.3.1 - 13/07/2003
v0.3 - 01/07/2003
v0.2
Started coding my own game: Ciudad Capital
ccmudlib v0.1
Some time after Reinos de Leyenda closed its doors, I started coding my own game, based in some of the latest features I was working on for the new mudlib, creating a new world and lore.
- 17/01/2003 First login to the new game.
Knowing about MUDs
Beginnings…
Some time around maybe 1998, I started playing in the Reinos de Leyenda MUD, and I fell in love with text-based games. I played with several classes/guilds, and after some time I became a creator (coder) and went up in the hierarchy up to alchemist (lesser admin).
With some other coders we started working in a hard-core revision of the codebase, updating the driver version, but the MUD would disappear before the new mudlib could open to the public.