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Subject:    [kopete-devel] Fwd: [Standards] Using Jabber in a KDE game
From:       Kleag <kleag () free ! fr>
Date:       2008-08-30 13:37:11
Message-ID: 200808301537.14191.kleag () free ! fr
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Hello,

I just sent the mail below to the Jabber standards mailing list. It's about 
the KDE game KsirK using Jabber to setup network games. As it should probably 
use the KDE libraries to connect to jabber, i forward it here to obtain also 
your advices.

Also, to make my first experiments, I'd like to creat a persistent chat room 
for ksirk, something like ksirk@kdetalk.net. I don't know how you do that, 
with kopete or anything else... Do you have an idea? Is a sysadmin 
authorization required? etc.

Bye.

Gaël
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Subject: [Standards] Using Jabber in a KDE game
Date: Saturday 30 August 2008
From: Kleag <kleag@free.fr>
To: standards@xmpp.org

Hello,

New to this list, I'm the author of KsirK, a KDE strategy game. Currently its 
net game uses pure TCP/IP. One player start its game by setting a port on 
which to listen to and the others connect to this port. Then the 
libkdegames/kgame library is used to communicate. This lib as all what is 
necessary to exchange messages including Qt objects. It also have a chat 
framework. KsirK is a multiplayer game with, currently, does not allow passive 
not playing participants.

Jabber seems to be a largely better solution. I want to have a very few 
centralized system, keeping one client as the game server and using the 
communication framework only for that: a communication tool. I'm also not 
interested in controling cheating, basing the game in trust.

So, my idea is to progressively switch to Jabber. In a first step, it would 
just allow to publish a proposed game in a kind of chat room and then the 
current communication system would be used. In a second step, xmpp would also 
be used to exchange game data.

I must admit that, even if Jabber seems promising, I'm a little bit lost in 
all the specifications and I don't know how to start implementing. I had a 
look to the recent thread (january and june) about the proposed Games XEPs and 
it seems promising for me. 

I will also contact the thelepathy and kopete teams as there are more related 
to KDE, but I'd like to have your opinion and advices about my ideas. I could 
describe them with more details, but I'm very not at ease with the underlying 
concepts and I don't want to say right now too silly things :-)

Thank in advance.

Best regards,

Gaël

P.S.: also, it this the correct list to discuss this or shoud I switch to jdev 
?
-- 
KsirK - a world domination strategy game 
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Games/Tactic_and_Strategy/KsirK

KGraphViewer - a GraphViz dot graphs viewer
http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kgraphviewer



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-- 
KsirK - a world domination strategy game 
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Games/Tactic_and_Strategy/KsirK

KGraphViewer - a GraphViz dot graphs viewer
http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kgraphviewer



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