[Kde-games-devel] Jabber KsirK

[Kleag]

I just started a game for two players, one played by the computer on my 
machine and one awaited from the net. You can connect to it through 
ksirk at conference.kdetalk.net.

It should wait for someone to connect until tomorrow morning 10H30 (WET) :-)

Gaël
On Friday 05 September 2008 00:40:12 Kleag wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sorry: I forgot the meeting on monday. In fact, I was deep in Jabber
> documentation and first coding... But, that was useful as I now have in
> branches/work/ksirk.jabber a first working version of ksirk adapted to use
> Jabber to propose/find network games. To be able to compile it, you have to
> apply in ksirk/ksirk/libiris after checkout the patch file which is in
> ksirk/ksirk.
>
> This draft uses a 'natural language' protocol to indicate/read in a
> standard MUC room what are the running games and where to connect to them.
> To summarize, a client wanting to find a waiting game sends the message
> "Who propose online KsirK games here?" to the chatroom. On receiving it,
> each waiting game sends to the room: "I'm starting a game with skin
> 'skins/default' and '1' network players on '<IP or hostname>', port
> 'XYZT'". The client displays all this data plus the nickname in a table
> allowing the user to select one of them and then connect as before.
>
> If you want to try, you will have to chose the "Game-> Connect to a
> Jabber..." menu entry and fill the fields (except password which is not
> connected currently) with your jid and password, the jid of the room and
> the nickname you want to use. I created the room
> "ksirk at conference.kdetalk.net" for my tests. You can use it if you wish.
>
> I'll now start to work on a full integration which will also transfer the
> game data through Jabber. This will use maybe a Multi User Games XEP draft
> or the telepathy framework. I'm not sure for the moment.
>
> See you soon (probably not this WE, since I leave tomorrow for a wedding,
> but I should be able to read my mails)
>
> Bye.
>
> Gaël

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