[nodebb-plugin-openfantasy] Full-fledged RPG system for NodeBB

[psychobunny]

haha hey are you from the old ADR community?

[HolyPhoenix]

I didn't spend much time on the actual ADR community website. But I had my own phpbb2 forum with ADR installed on it (I was using the premodded metabb back then on my community. ADR was the best plugin ever created for forum scripts.

[psychobunny]

oh yeah metabb.. think Ex0dus wrote that one. It was actually the first one I used as well

[HolyPhoenix]

Yeah, it was Exo. His website (shockv2) just perished recently too which was pretty sad as it was one of the first forums I frequented.

Anyway, thanks soooo much for this plugin! Now I am going to go digging deep into the NodeBB plugin architecture to see if I can help at all. My experience from web development is all java faces and asp.net related with some lesser experience in PHP from my love of forums. Nodejs shouldn't be too hard to figure out though.

[psychobunny]

this will be my weekend project for the forseeable future I'll be putting hooks all over the place in ADR and I'll come up with a couple of sample plugins for it (maybe will port a few of the popular but simpler ADR 0.x addons) so that might be a good starting point if you were interested

[winzombie]

awesome news pb thx for ur work=)

[erich]

Fantastic!!! Glad to see this still alive. Looking forward to the updates. If you need any help or webspace for testing, I'm ready to help.

[Oroton]

PM to a demo

ADR Is probably the best most versatile complete rpg on the net it's a shame it's reliant on phpbb. It's great to see this as a standalone project using open fantasy.

To see a live example of how ADR was check out Midorea, probably the last live site using the old technology.

Can't wait to get into this even just to get the core live.

Are you supporting this on your openFantasy forum, I haven seen updates but I check it every other day.
Are you only going to work on this as a plug in for node, like is it reliant or will this still be stand alone but bridged to work with Node or any other forum?

Will work on core with you if stand alone, I don't have any chance of working with nodebb unless I get hosted..

[HolyPhoenix]

@psychobunny said:

this will be my weekend project for the forseeable future I'll be putting hooks all over the place in ADR and I'll come up with a couple of sample plugins for it (maybe will port a few of the popular but simpler ADR 0.x addons) so that might be a good starting point if you were interested

Awesome! I started following the project on github yesterday. When you get a couple of smaller plugins as examples up and running I'll see if I can start working on porting other plugins over. Or just writing new ones. Whichever I find more useful.

[psychobunny]

@Oroton said:

Are you supporting this on your openFantasy forum, I haven seen updates but I check it every other day.
Are you only going to work on this as a plug in for node, like is it reliant or will this still be stand alone but bridged to work with Node or any other forum?

I'm definitely retiring the PHP version (although anybody who wants to continue development can go for it :P) - and definitely I'll only be working on this for NodeBB, mainly because this forum software is my baby afterall so definitely not in my best interests to have ADR ported on to any other forum

Will work on core with you if stand alone, I don't have any chance of working with nodebb unless I get hosted..

There are actually some free hosts out there that you can use. Koding.com comes to mind, another one that seems to be popular is OpenShift (although am waiting for a tutorial from @never hopefully :p)

When you get a couple of smaller plugins as examples up and running I'll see if I can start working on porting other plugins over.

Okay I'll be working on this project during the weekends, definitely

[erich]

@psychobunny

Hi psychobunny,
Thanks for the info via FB on how to set it up. I have the server running now but for some reason I can't get the plugin to work. I've installed the CASH mod as well. Strange that it won't show up on the admin menu when I activate it.

Cheers!

[psychobunny]

Ah, did you restart NodeBB? Any plugin/theme activation requires you to restart the forum

[erich]

@psychobunny

Hey there, I did use the "restart" in the admin. Should I do this via the putty command line instead?

[psychobunny]

Yup. The restart button in the admin requires you to have launched NodeBB via ./nodebb start

That's useful for production mode, but otherwise I'd use ./nodebb watch if you have supervisor installed, which auto-restarts if any changes to the code is made

[erich]

@psychobunny
Hi again, sorry for the confusion. I have enabled the ./nodebb watch command and the same issue. The CASH MOD plugin shows up and works, just not the ADR plugin.

[psychobunny]

Yeah I have no ACP settings for ADR yet (will probably do that last :p)

Right now the data is all hardcoded, so I'll be moving that out into the database eventually. To access ADR you'll probably see a link in the forum menu that takes you to the RPG (or you can visit yourdomain.com/rpg)

[erich]

@psychobunny
Still no dice I must be doing something totally wrong here. Thanks for your patience with me as I learn this.

[psychobunny]

Hmm.... well you managed to get the cash mod working so perhaps it's not even your fault. You don't see any warnings in the terminal do you? And if ADR was installed (and activated), it should say:

info: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-openfantasy

on start up

[erich]

@psychobunny
Ah, when I take at look at ./nodebb watch I do not see it at all ...strange

[psychobunny]

Hmm.. and you've activated it in the control panel yeah? The cash mod needs to be active too. Let me install this on a fresh copy of NodeBB and see if I run into anything