P2P Roaming Chat

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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Virtual Boondocks....

[Cheap Imitation]

Wow! Virtual North Dakota!

Hey, there's no one here either....

OMG I wouldn't want to be hosting his email acct

[forged]

Just email Brendan and he'll tell you where to download the software.
(This is being done so that we can manage the size of the community.)

I have two words for you Sir: Good Luck.

Seriously though, unless the guys either
a) bounces all emails for the next 24 hours
b) store them on some large capacity HDD
c) buys some bandwidth,

I'm under the impression that he will ge a lot more requests for download that he normally gets !!!

Enjoy being Slashdotted to death :-)

Winner: most boring use of "P2P"

[mblase]

Now you should walk completely off the edge of your own land. There will be a pause, and then, like magic, the Master Server will send you off to your next destination. And hooray, all of a sudden you're on your friend's land, served all the way from the other side of the world!

So, it's kind of like EverQuest, except you get to make your own ugly little piece of real estate and there's no actual conflict.

Yeah, it's technically peer-to-peer because your land is stored on your own client instead of a central server. But calling it a "Napster-style network" is shamelessly self-promoting, since there's nothing useful for you to share. It's instant messaging with ugly graphics.

Let me know when the next release comes out, with the power to take over adjacent pieces of "geography" and form a collaborative village or army or something.

Re:Looks like...

[trix_e]

Yeah, but the cool potential I see in this is making something like this as an open-source project.

Set up a basic world, and basic character interaction rules, basic item rules, and physics, etc. And then everyone can create their own "country" or whatever metaphor is chosen to represent your own little chunk of the Metaverse/Other Plane (credit where credit is due...)

Then allow folks to go to town developing open source add-ons, or modifying their own real estate. Want to make a public amusement park, a private club, who knows what?

I know that they're planning on taking the Sims to a massively multiplayer platform in the next year or so, but this would be so much cooler with folks from all over the world developing modules, items, and god-knows what. Like anything with enough of a cool factor, this would grow into something that we can't even truly envision right now... Plus you wouldn't have all of the copyright and licensing issues that you'll inevitably have with OnlineSims mods...

Yes, you'll have cheaters, and all kinds of other non expected events, but the community will take care of that too...

sounds like fun.

Quake was supposed to do this...

[teamhasnoi]

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.