Andrew Plotkin wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 12:21:43AM +0100, Torsten Grote wrote:
we concentrate on One-to-One gaming, since MUG will need server support.
Is it really needed? A gaming support on server? Couldn't this be done
trough ordinary MUC?
We did it with ordinary MUC, with RPC messages for game moves and disco
for game discovery. No server support necessary.
That will only work if you trust each party to follow the same set of
rules governing the game and not to make invalid moves/cheat, it is far
better to have a third party (i.e. a gaming server, or maybe one of the
participants) receiving all the moves and verifying them before
distributing them to all the players, also a lot of games (for example
battleships, scrabble, most card based games, i.e. poker, uno) work by
neither player knowing the full game state with the full state only
known by a neutral third party.
Richard
