[Jolo-develop] Re: [Jolo-announce] Jolo Design 0.1 released

[Mike Y. <you...@us...>]

Hmm......that would be fine with me....but maybe it would be too soon for
some others to of read their homework? :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Heath" <mh...@le...>
To: <jol...@li...>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: [Jolo-announce] Jolo Design 0.1 released


> Fellow Jolo Developers,
>
> Youngm and I have finally finished the initial design work for the core of
> Jolo and the documents have been submitted to Source
> Forge(http://sourceforge.net/projects/jolo/).  Just go to the Docs
section.
> The design includes handling objects on the map and how ojbects interact
as
> well as communications between the client and server.  We still haven't
> written up a good design for the server, the plug-in architecture, the
> client API and the client itself but those should be much easier than the
> core architecture.  Besides with what we have it should be easy to make a
> server that plays a virtual game with itself (which will be good for
> testing.)
>
> So far the design is very flexible.  The game engine should be able to
> handle many different types of objects that can interact in many different
> ways going way beyond the simplicity of Bolo.  The communications protocol
> attempts to minimize traffic so hopefully even Evan could even play from
> home using his 28.8K connection. :)
>
> Even if you don't plan on working on Jolo your input is valuable so if you
> have the time (and can understand UML) please subscribe to the
Jolo-Develop
> mailing list, read the design documents (also on Source Forge) and let all
> the developers know what you think by submitting questions and comments to
> the mailing list.  These documents are not the final word and are not way
> set in stone.  We want to hear your criticism and discover better ways of
> doing things.  If we decide this design is a pile of infested cow manure
> we'd like to make that decision sooner than later. :)
>
> We want to have a design review via IRC ASAP.  I think it will be easiest
to
> plan such a discussion via the mailing list.
>
> Your friendly neighborhood Jolo project admin,
>
> heathm
>
> p.s.  Some of you have already recieved this E-mail directly from me but I
> wanted to make sure it got archived in the Jolo-announce mailing list.
>
>
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