Gaming oportunities

[Kent Karlsson]

Thanks for getting it to the wiki, I've been trying to finish it for  
a couple of hours this morning, but there is this work thing that  
keeps me occupied all the time. =)

I'll try to flesh out my idea some more and write a couple of  
paragraphs on it on the wiki.

-- kent

On 22 jan 2007, at 09.43, Ortwin Regel wrote:

> I've reorganized the wiki entry and tried to add everything I could
> find. Feel free to add more!
> http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Ideas/Games
>
> Ortwin
>
> On 1/22/07, tony <tony at paperdove.org> wrote:
>> Kent Karlsson wrote:
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > What do you guys think about creating a nice lib which makes it  
>> easy for
>> > games to support different multiplayer modes?
>> >
>> > Live connection over Bluetooth and/or GPRS (Perhaps mixed). Play  
>> by mail
>> > over email or sms. It would be awesome if we could switch  
>> between the
>> > modes as well for games where it makes sense.
>> >
>> > I realize that it won't be hard for any game to add the support,  
>> but
>> > keeping friends list and creating everything on a per-game basis  
>> is just
>> > plain unnecessary.
>> >
>> > -- kent
>> >
>>
>> Now *that's* an interesting idea: a messaging layer that defaults to
>> bluetooth, but can use either GPRS (for more-or-less real-time  
>> games) or
>> SMS (for non-real-time games, like chess).
>>
>> In the instance of chess, it'd be like playing by mail, only  
>> faster. You
>> wouldn't rely on GPRS, so your phone isn't tied up. That would  
>> limit the
>> number of moves you get for free for some people (my plan doesn't  
>> have
>> unlimited SMS, for instance), but it'd still be nice. Also, using  
>> SMS,
>> the message has a certain amount of assurance it will arrive.
>>
>> I think this sort of framework would be invaluable, especially if you
>> have, as you mention, a "friends list." Automate the sharing of high
>> scores amount your group, that sort of thing.
>>
>> I like it. I like it a lot.
>>
>>                                 - Tony
>>
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