hey, game developers

[gusl]

Suppose you have an idea for a multi-player game (i.e. > 1 player), and you're really itching to play/playtest it online.

Right now, I'm interested in Bid Tic Tac Toe (via Andrew Arnold), which is a 2-player game.

Since this is a game of imperfect information, playing by email/chat doesn't work (more precisely, you'd need an honour system, and preventing oneself from cheating would be too effortful)

I wouldn't know how to make this a web game (other than by having the players constantly reload the page). I guess I would need something like AJAX.

Also, if you're in Vancouver, hit me up for a paper&pencil game.

Comments

[rinku.livejournal.com]

Flash or Java would probably work?

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

how would the server store the state of the game? how would it communicate with the client browsers?

[rinku.livejournal.com]

I haven't worked with those games so I don't know the specifics, but I've seen games do it before. There are Flash MMORPGs like Dofus, so I assume that multiplayer Flash games are possible, even though most of them don't do it.

[darius.livejournal.com]

http://volity.org/ is supposed to make building these things easy. It doesn't seem to have taken off, unfortunately.

[x77303066.livejournal.com]

All you need is something running in the browser (Java, Flash, Javascript) and for that something to have a socket connection to your server (XMLHttpRequest in the case of javascript; this is one of the components of AJAX).

[wjl.livejournal.com]

in theory, you could play by email/chat using crypto: players both send their moves, encrypted, and then upon receipt they send the keys. then they can both compute the outcome of the round and reach agreement.