[JDEV] Volity: a Jabber-based game protocol

[Jason McIntosh]

Volity is an open protocol and system design for creating and playing 
multiplayer, platform-independent games over the Internet, focusing on 
board, card, and other "parlor"-style games. It may be of interest to 
the Jabber development community since it uses Jabber/XMPP as its 
central method of communication, and its other major components are 
also XML-based (higher-level messaging happens through XML-RPC, for 
example, and GUIs are built out of SVG).

The project's homepage: http://volity.org

We've got documentation outlining the system's structure and features, 
and are currently working on reference implementations of both the 
server and client sides, with a goal of having a useable beta by 
mid-2004. As the project's developers been actively using Jabber only 
since starting the project (about half a year ago), I'd be interested 
to hear design opinions from people with more Jabber experience.

(Alexey Nezhdanov's post about the iSpace game reminded me that I ought 
to share this project with the list, too...)

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   Jason McIntosh             jmac at jmac.org
Somerville, MA, USA       http://www.jmac.org