Subject: Re: WorldForge
From: Bryce Harrington (bryce@neptune.net)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 13:22:37 EEST
Okay, well, good luck. Note though that we had to replace our original coordinator; he didn't talk to us either. ;^) It just occurred to me when seeing your announcement that some of our resources might have been of use to you. Fare thee well! Bryce On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Tommi Leino wrote: > Bryce Harrington wrote: > > > > I encourage you to take a look at WorldForge - www.worldforge.org. > > Sounds like we share some similar goals. > > Well, not so similar goals. The idea of creating multiplayer online > (or roleplaying?) world is similar, but then the others aren't. > > 1) We are not going to maintain all the possible client types, > only one. It is impossible to do a true 3D client for a > text-based or 2D game so it would work right. One of our goals > is to use a game engine that is realistic and not a bit > restrictive, thus true 3D is our only choice. It is for example > a little hard to emulate terrain elevations in a 2D or isometric > world without kludging. > > 2) We are not going to have multiple servers, only one with > _consistent_ and well designed world. Our server isn't open source, > it would break our goals if it would be. Unlike WorldForge's. > > 3) We are not going to have a static world either. instead a dynamic > world which write its own history - really. > > I see WorldForge's goals: To create a GPL/LGPL game with total freedom > for anyone to do anything - that means it can be only a "generic" game > engine for people to do whatever world they want. That doesn't really > suit to our ideas. > > When the WorldForge project begun, I was in - speaking to the founder > that there is already a project sharing quite similar ideas and > suggested > to combine our forces, but he apparently weren't interested. Now the > people are saying that we should join to WorldForge instead, like we > are being a new project trying to do the work that has been already > done. Hmpf. > > -- > Tommi Leino / Majik 3D project > namhas@majik.netti.fi http://majik.netti.fi > -- Bryce Harrington bryce @ neptune.net
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