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Solipsis - a Decentralized Open-Source MMORPG

Posted by Zonk on from the reality's-building-blocks dept.

Anonymous Reader writes "Calling it an MMORPG is a bit of a misnomer because at this point there aren't any players, much less hit points, monsters, or flaming swords. Solipsis is an open-source project that aims to create a decentralized multi-user virtual world. It's still very much in its infancy, and as such the visuals are a bit lacking, but the aim is to create an endlessly scalable user-contributed world and it seems it's a nice platform to play with."

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  1. Croquet by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also vaguely interesting and along similar lines is Alan Kay's Croquet project.

    It's not particularly mind blowing, but it has potential.

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    There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
  2. Cool... Let's see where this leads to. by obi · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm quite interested in such a system. However, for a true decentralized system you need to put trust metrics at the core of the system, because cheating would just be too easy otherwise.

    With a client/server model, you can just say: "everyone trusts what the server says, what the server says goes". With a P2P model you have no such easy way out.

    Anyway, I'll be very closely watching this - the only distributed system that comes close is opencroquet, but that's not really suitale for a real-time environment.

    While they might not necessarily succeed, it'll be very interesting to see their experience and conclusions once their prototypes start being used.