From: Abdelkader Boudih <terminale@...>
Date: 2008-04-03T05:16:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Web-based games?

Seth Mccauley wrote:
> Michal Suchanek wrote:
>   
>> Perhaps if you could make the framework so that multiple servers can
>> be set up in rotation people could host the thing from their DSL lines
>> or such. Still you need to set up the rotation, though.
>>
>>     
> This could be tricky to set up... but I think you have a good idea here. 
> What about making a web-based multiplayer game that communicates 
> entierly peer to peer? That's how most of the fat client online games 
> work... the server let's meet and chat with people to set up a game 
> with. Once the game starts, each player's computer talks directly to the 
> other player's computers and not to the server.
>   
Connection peer to peer require installable software in the users machine .
Most of big games, set-up a server/like and open a port to listen to 
incoming connection .
Using flash/js to connect directly to another computer is impossible.
What we can do it that the server relay result and the game should send 
only few data or just updated actions.
Personally , I think that ruby should be used to code the logics of the 
game in a clean way! while flash/js will handle the user inputs!

Regards
Abdelkader Boudih