Re: [Vegastrike-devel] Proposal: Open Game Lounge System / Community

[Sven P. <kal...@gm...>]

Hi Dave!

Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Wed Apr  8 12:33:31 2009, Sven Pfaller wrote:
>> The vision is an open, cross-platform game lounge system, used to play
>> online with people from around the world, browsing through and easily
>> joining multiplayer games. Its core elements will be:
>>
>>  * a set of open standard protocols describing the communication between
>> a game-lounge-server, a game-server and a game-client
>>  * an open API for games implementing these protocols
>>  * a game-lounge-server including community features (user-database,
>> statistics, chatting, etc.)
>>  * a game-browser
> 
> Sounds like a job for XMPP - I know there's some people in the XSF quite
> interested in building things like this, and the vast majority of it we
> have already.

Nice. I'll see if I can contact someone from the XSF.

We'll discuss the posibility of using XMPP as protocol on the Glou
mailinglist. Maybe you'd like to join?

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/glou-devel

What exactly do you mean by "the vast majority of it we have already"?
The vast majority of a XMPP game-protocol?

Thank you for your input :) .

> Dave.

Best regards
- Sven