Terasology Multiplayer

[AlbireoX]

I believe that the first thing you need to do to get a game like this out there is, well, multiplayer.

(Also, please speed up the game somehow. It runs terribly on my good computer.)

I pitched out the idea of Spout server before, but it uses a completely different architecture than Terasology.

How about a distributed server, similar to BitTorrent? Of course, you may have unreliable clients, but the other clients will check the others for hacks.

Or how about just a regular server, also built on an Entity system?

There are many ways to approach this, but I believe that this and the Modding API are the most important things right now. In the future, everything should be built on the Modding API, anyway.

 

[Cervator]

Yeah there's some tinkering starting on this (like immortius' multiplayer branch) and some discussion here and there. SpoutServer has come up, but unsure about the architecture issues. I might find one of the older threads while sorting, might have more details. Fleshing out the mod stuff a bit more would also help.

 

[begla]

(Also, please speed up the game somehow. It runs terribly on my good computer.)

Mind sending me a private message with your system specs?

 

[Immortius]

Yeah, I've started looking into this. Going to take a bit as various systems need to be refactored to allow them to work in either headless or client situations. Basically I'm going for a server<->client model using Netty and Protobuf, integrated with both the World and Entity Systems.

 

[Ten'son']

So wazzap' ?
Need help?
I have experience in making servers. ^^

 

[Immortius]

I ended up putting this on the backburner, partially to get some preparatory work out of the way (restructure of world data) and partially to address two features which I consider to be of more importance (entity physics - because there's not much point to a game where you can't interact with things, and the modding/package system so that people can work on features without having to mess with the engine - prioritised up due to a sudden increase in popularity ). So I guess I'll be back on this in October or so.