[Mod-pubsub-developer] Intent to do damgage

[Tom <tom...@sl...>]

Some of you know me, the rest will know now...Hiya

Anyways....I played with KN stuff a few yarns ago and liked what I saw but
as with many things in the vast interconnectedness sphere of doing lost
the thread between lunch and a meeting on a DOA project on forest products
and word perfect macros.

But now I have been reawakened. I have for many a moon loved the idea of
using the web browser as the default front end for apps. Why reinvent the
wheel when there are folks doign what I need already. The main downside
has always been the stateless classless tasteless way browsers do certian
things, interaction being several of them.

A littel tidbit about what I am, I like games. Not so much first person
shooters or the latter day saints of vice, but old skewl baord games,
from avalon hill stylings up to cheapass goodness and on to home crafted
stuff. I even put out a zine on the subject (
http://sourceforge.net/projects/countermoves/ )

So whats this to you? Well I think, as with many a technovation, pr0n and
game will carry the lead in numbers better than reruns of Kate and Alley
or yetanothertexteditor.

The holy grail of the old skewl gamer has been to find a cross platform
mehtod of playing the dusty crusties real time anytime with folks far
flung across the thoughtshpere. So far what has been had are closed soruce
os locked process and formats that make it impossible to really spread the
love. The only real insanely great (on paper) project has been QUB
(http://qub.sourceforge.net/) but its so OS locked its as bad as the
others inthat regard.

Hence the browser, hence mod_pubsub.

The server would know the state of the board, the lay of the terrian, the
cards in each hand, the users could then survey the deal, make a move, and
watch what happens.

Simple case, checkers...or better yet, something like Kill Dr Lucky.
Complex case..Advanced Third Reich.

Also, in the first mode the whole thing is simply being the real world
equiv of game table, board, card, dice etc with no rules knowledge needed.
let the users move. In the Nth case the server could do rules
interpetation, move checking, heck even be an AI oppenent.

The key thing is all the users would need to play is a browser that can
deal with mod_pubsub.


Ok its a rough idea. but there it be. Its the bee in my bonnet and this
might be the thing that makes it able to be.

Enough of my ramblings, somtimes between now and next year I should find
time between diapy changes to install and start testing out ideas. Any
thoughts on the matter would be happily used and appreciated.


-tomwsmf