Show HN: Noric-bot – A bot to stress-test text-based MUDs, written in Scala 3 • Hacker News Board

Doesn't look like this does anything clever/special; it just randomly spits a finite set of handwritten commands to the socket that the author's target MUD happens to accept.

Was hoping that this was something more like AFL for TCP clients, discovering all the commands the MUD supports, and through it, the entire state-space of the MUD's world-model.

Re: Show HN: Noric-bot – A bot to stress-test text-based MUDs, written in Scala 3

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Post by mattmcf » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

Scala does have some interesting applications for stress testing. I personally think that this project could have benefitted from the Akka Streams library. Akka Streams allow you gloss over thread creation while focusing on scheduling events to send to a sink. Pretty handy when you want to quickly spin up a rudimentary stress test tool.

Re: Show HN: Noric-bot – A bot to stress-test text-based MUDs, written in Scala 3

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Post by fouc » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

Well that's kinda cool. I didn't know there was a discord chat for mud coders. Also it appears there's a slack chat for mud coders as well https://mudcoders.com

Oh even cooler, there's a mud chat network so people can chat between muds: https://grapevine.haus (coded in elixir too!)

Re: Show HN: Noric-bot – A bot to stress-test text-based MUDs, written in Scala 3

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Post by spir » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

derefr wrote: post #5

Doesn't look like this does anything clever/special; it just randomly spits a finite set of handwritten commands to the socket that the author's target MUD happens to accept. Was hoping that this was something more like AFL for TCP clients, discovering all the commands the MUD supports, and through it, the entire state-space of the MUD's world-model.

Fair enough. I try to spend as little time as possible on the bot and more time on the game itself :-)

The bot you describe sounds cool -- would love to see it!

Re: Show HN: Noric-bot – A bot to stress-test text-based MUDs, written in Scala 3

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Post by spir » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:36 PM UTC

darkstar999 wrote: post #3

> A bot to stress test text-based MMORPGs written in Scala 3. A bot written in Scala 3 to stress test text-based MMORPGs. Unless it only tests MMORPGs written in Scala....

Thanks, updated.

Re: Show HN: Noric-bot – A bot to stress-test text-based MUDs, written in Scala 3

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Post by spir » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:40 PM UTC

If you like MUDs check out the new, excellent, and often-updated https://www.titansoftext.com podcast :-)