Evennia: Event-Driven Online Gaming with Twisted and Django

Do you have a hankering to run your own multi-user text-based game server? If you do, and you love Twisted, Evennia is the project for you! Through the power of Twisted, Evennia has built a MUD-server platform that not only provides traditional telnet access but also lets you play via the web! As Evennia maintainer Griatch Art put it:

Whereas traditional MUD servers only speak telnet, Evennia additionally comes with its own browser-based client and allows for expanding with custom game protocols in any combination. ... All of this is straightforward to implement and maintain thanks to Twisted!

Evennia also combines Twisted with Django, providing a comprehensive real-world case study of melding these two popular systems.  As Griatch puts it, Twisted and Django "work beautifully together".

To find out more about how Twisted was the perfect fit for this massively multi-player platform and why the Evennia team chose Twisted, check out the success story.

Have your own success story using Twisted? Let us know! Just send an e-mail to success@twistedmatrix.com

Making chat hipper with Twisted!

HipChat has been changing what it means to communicate in teams of any size and taking the world by storm over the past 12 months. What you may not know is that Twisted is at the core of HipChat's highly successful service:

HipChat is a hosted group chat and IM service for businesses which uses the XMPP protocol behind the scenes. We use Twisted to power our fully clustered chat server and run many important job queue workers.

Bottom line: we built and launched a successful business on Twisted & Python in 6 months with no prior knowledge of either. It's a very productive environment with great performance and maintainability. What more could you want?

    – Garret Heaton, Co-founder, HipChat

To learn more about how HipChat uses Twisted check out the success story!

Powering the Silver Screen

Think Twisted is only good for Internet-facing servers? Even then, it's not like Python itself that touches every part of your day in some way, right? Well my friend, you'd be delightfully wrong.

When you watch a movie crediting Lucasfilm for special effects, Twisted could be behind the scenes. Since 2004, Lucasfilm has used Twisted as part of its rendering operations to proxy database connectivity in the render farm (and much more), 24/7 x 365. That's right my friends, Twisted is not only the engine of your Internet...it might have a hand in your entertainment too.

To read more check out the great Success Story from Dave Peticolas from Lucasfilm: Twisted at Lucasfilm

Have your own success story using Twisted? Let us know! Just send an e-mail to success@twistedmatrix.com

New, New, New!

New Success Story

We've added a great success story for PowerCard, a loyalty rewards program for local restaurants. One of the terrific things about the PowerCard story is the use of Twisted for both back-end and client-facing systems. It's a great reminder that Twisted is as useful solving problems on Windows platforms as it is on the Linux/UNIX-based systems many of us code for.

Read the full success story here.

New Library Listing

Looking to use Twisted with new technologies like RabbitMQ (txAMQP) and Redis (txRedis)? Browse the updated libraries listing. We bet you'll find what you're looking for.

New Twisted Ambassador

And why do we have these new and updated listings for 3rd-party code? It's because we have a new guy who has volunteered to maintain and update the listings!

Jason J. W. Williams is Twisted's new ambassador to 3rd-party projects of all kinds.Primarily this responsibility involves keeping the "Success Stories" and "Projects Using Twisted" pages up to date, and occasionally writing small updates (like this one) for the news feed.

Please contact success at twisted matrix dot com if you have a success story about how you used Twisted, a pointer to some hitherto unknown code that uses Twisted, or for more information. And watch this space for more updates!