From: Christopher Allan Webber Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 11:11:03 +0000 (-0600) Subject: start to add federation station X-Git-Tag: fosdem-2017~17 X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a9bcb8f2f23cd6309cab545a8e5626a2e936b39;p=mudsync.git start to add federation station --- diff --git a/worlds/bricabrac.scm b/worlds/bricabrac.scm index 3224b48..0d49355 100644 --- a/worlds/bricabrac.scm +++ b/worlds/bricabrac.scm @@ -1356,7 +1356,10 @@ is a map detailing the layout of the underground structure.")) "into the room, then stands in front of the door.")))) (make #:name "north" - #:to 'hive-entrance))) + #:to 'hive-entrance) + (make + #:name "east" + #:to 'federation-station))) ;; map ('underground-lab:map @@ -1657,6 +1660,9 @@ that thing soon.")))) "prints itself out:")) (p (pre ,meta-message-text))))) + +;;; Inside the Hive + (define hive-inside (lol ('hive-inside @@ -1739,6 +1745,64 @@ bit hard to tell when the desk ends and the Hive Actor begins." #:invisible? #t #:goes-by '("Hive Actor's desk" "hive desk" "desk")))) + +;;; Federation Station +(define federation-station + (lol + ('federation-station + #f + #:name "Federation Station" + #:desc + '((p "This room has an unusual structure. It's almost as if a starscape +covered the walls and ceiling, but upon closer inspection you realize that +these are all brightly glowing nodes with lines drawn between them. They +seem decentralized, and yet seem to be sharing information as if all one +network.") + ;; @@: Maybe add the cork message board here? + (p "To the west is a door leading back to the underground laboratory.")) + #:exits + (list (make + #:name "west" + #:to 'underground-lab))) + ;; nodes + ;; network + ;; activitypub poster + ;; conspiracy chart + ('federation-station:conspiracy-chart + 'federation-station + #:name "a conspiracy chart" + #:goes-by '("conspiracy chart" "chart") + #:desc + '((p (i "\"IT'S ALL RELATED!\"") " shouts the over-exuberant conspiracy " + "chart. " + (i "\"ActivityPub? Federation? The actor model? Scheme? Text adventures? " + "MUDS???? What do these have in common? Merely... EVERYTHING!\"")) + (p "There are circles and lines drawn between all the items in red marker, " + "with scrawled notes annotating the theoretical relationships. Is the " + "author of this poster mad, or onto something? Perhaps a bit of both. " + "There's a lot written here, but here are some of the highlights:") + (p + (ul + (li (b "Scheme") " was originally started to explore the " (b "actor model") + ". (It became more focused around studying the " (b "lambda calculus") + " very quickly, while also uncovering relationships between the two systems.)") + ;; Subject Predicate Object + (li "The " (b "ActivityPub") " protocol for " (b "federation") + " uses the " (b "ActivityStreams") " format for serialization. " + (b "Text adventures") " and " (b "MUDS") + " follow a similar structure to break down the commands of players.") + (li (b "Federation") " and the " (b "actor model") " both are related to " + "highly concurrent systems and both use message passing to communicate " + "between nodes.") + (li "In the 1990s, before the Web became big, " (b "MUDs") + " were an active topic of research, and there was strong interest " + "in building decentralized systems similar to what is being " + "worked on for " (b "federation") ". " + "(See the network spaces desiderata document.)"))))) + + ;; goblin + + )) ;;; Game @@ -1748,7 +1812,7 @@ bit hard to tell when the desk ends and the Hive Actor begins." (append lobby grand-hallway smoking-parlor playroom break-room computer-room underground-lab async-museum gift-shop hive-entrance - hive-inside)) + hive-inside federation-station)) ;; TODO: Provide command line args (define (run-game . args)