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Anyone interested in writing some Volity games? We turned a corner last weekend, and everything suddenly became scalable and realistic all at once... foomp, was the sound. Plz mail me or respond here for more info.

At this time the only development framework is in Perl. In theory, if you can hack object-oriented Perl, you can write Volity modules with only surface-knowledge of how Volity works. The cool part is that you can write multiplayer network games without having to even catch a whiff of the network stuff. You don't even have to know any SVG or ECMAScript... though you'll probably have to help design an appropriate client-side, non-language-specific API for your game.

The point of this exercise is as much a way to quickly refine the development framework as it is to make more games available. Therefore, you'll get as much personal assistance from me as you can stomach.

I'd prefer simpler games right now, as the system design is still quite alpha. By "simple" I probably mean "games simple enough to conceivably play on a text-only console".

Date: 2004-03-29 10:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queue.livejournal.com
What about a retooling of the already-extant Jotto game stuff? Does that qualify as simple?

Date: 2004-03-29 10:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prog.livejournal.com
Yes, definitely.

Probably instead of "simple" I should have said "as easy to play on a text-only console as through a graphical client".

Date: 2004-03-29 10:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queue.livejournal.com
Okay. Then consider this my request for more info.

Date: 2004-03-29 11:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cortezopossum.livejournal.com
Hrm... the only relatively simple games I can think of at the moment are either Xiang Qi (a/k/a Elephant Chess) or maybe some kind of multi-player card game like 'Euchre'.

Date: 2004-03-29 11:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queue.livejournal.com
Hooray for Euchre!

Date: 2004-03-29 12:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikchik.livejournal.com
Ooh, I don't have enough projects. I could implement closed-hand Crystal in Volity!

Date: 2004-04-06 08:04 am (UTC)
cnoocy: green a-e ligature (Default)
From: [personal profile] cnoocy
I am very interested (though busy.)

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