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P2P Roaming Chat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the snowcrash-anyone dept.

fexter writes "A coder called Brendan Reville has released BrendanLand, which he claims is "the world's first peer2peer application where each participant serves their own piece of geography in the overall world." Basically, everyone walks around and chats. But each person gets to design their own piece of land, and everyone roams between these lands. It's all free, and the website has lots of technical notes and a developer diary." Oviously this is hugely basic stuff, but conceptually there is a lot of potential cool ideas. But for now it looks just silly ;)

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  1. Quake was supposed to do this... by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Back in the day, (Pre-Quake) John Carmack gave an interview in which he stated that Quake would have all these servers run by people who would control their 'land', having whatever kind of level/rules/physics! the admins wanted. You would get to these servers by running thru the 'sparkly doorways'.

    He gave a scenario where a server had a 'tag' game of some sort going on. You would be chasing this guy thru a castle, he runs thru the 'sparkly door', you follow and seamlessly end up in another level with different physics (low grav) different rules (bouncing rockets) and different look,(Space Mountain).

    I'm still waiting for this.