P2P Roaming Chat
from the snowcrash-anyone dept.
Commander Taco posts:
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 ;) [by way of Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]
To connect to the larger world, your piece of land has to connect to a master computer, in a Napster-like configuration, where each is a peer, but discovery depends on a centralized mechanism.
I remember an ambitious game that had a similar concept, where client/servers would connect to each other to serve up various parts of an astrography, rather than a geography, and you would fly spaceships and shoot others or team up as appropriate. It was supposed to be an open project for Mac OS, Windows, and Linux machines, but I don’t remember anything coming of it. I think I saw it in MacAddict three years ago? Hm.
Brendanland is for Windows only, so, eh. No source, either, so, eh. Depends on DirectX, so it might be portable to Mac OS X using a DirectX translator that I think I heard about somewhere....
This might serve as a platform for file sharing, if persistent objects could be strewn over the landscape, such as books and such. Of course, this would have to allow for peers with lower hard drive capacity.
1:51:09 PM 
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