Re: [GNUnet-developers] p2p 'massively multi-player games (MMGs)'

[Marcos Marado]

Donnar wrote:

> there is currently a discussion on the TORCS-devel list if it is possible to 
> use Croquet or something else for a low latency game
> 
> 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=31887625&forum_id=3774

As someone said in that discussion:

> Alot of the network libraries are made for
> World of Warcraft type games with huge numbers of
> players, but do not require fast responses to things
> such as collisions or spinouts. Different kinds of
> games need different types of libraries.

So, for your latency question, I would have to say that "it depends on what do 
you want to do". See, there are really no implementation for it at the 
moment, or something for us to test that. What we have is in GNUnet's roadmap 
one application called "gnunet-chat", that does exactly that: swaps messages 
between nodes. When that's built we'll be able to see the real latency 
challange in GNUnet, but, otoh, we believe that gnunet-chat <will work>, and, 
depending on what kind of stuff you're wanting to do, that can already be 
enough. Most MMOG's send little more traffic than a simple chat system 
does... Unless you try to use the network to send graphics data.

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Marcos Marado
Sonaecom IT