January 2009

• [Design] on the game mechanics of open questing Siege)
• • RANT: The Future of Quests Mike Rozak
  • • RANT: The Future of Quests Amanda Walker
    • • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] cruise
      • • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] Amanda Walker
        • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] Mike Sellers
        • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] John Buehler
        • • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] cruise
          • • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] John Buehler
          • Wikia MUD project Raph Koster
          • • Wikia MUD project Nabil Maynard
            • • Wikia MUD project Raph Koster
            • Wikia MUD project Peter Harkins
        • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] Mike Oxford
        • • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] cruise
          • • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] Damion Schubert
            • • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] Threshold
              • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] John Buehler
              • • Players are shallow [was: The Future of Quests] Mike Sellers
    • RANT: The Future of Quests Mike Sellers
    • • RANT: The Future of Quests Damion Schubert
      • • RANT: The Future of Quests Mike Rozak
• [DESIGN] How big is enough? Ian Hess
• • [DESIGN] How big is enough? Mike Rozak
  • • [DESIGN] How big is enough? Mike Oxford
    • • [DESIGN] How big is enough? Vincent Archer
      • • [DESIGN] How big is enough? szii@sziisoft.com
  • [DESIGN] How big is enough? Siege)
  • [DESIGN] How big is enough? Threshold
  • [DESIGN] How big is enough? David Johansson
  • [DESIGN] How big is enough? Roger Durañona Vargas
• Persisting a MUD state with plain binary serialization Tiago
• • Persisting a MUD state with plain binary serialization Jon Mayo
  • Persisting a MUD state with plain binary serialization Jeffrey Kesselman
  • Persisting a MUD state with plain binary serialization Chris White
  • Persisting a MUD state with plain binary serialization Mike Oxford
  • • Persisting a MUD state with plain binary serialization Tiago
    • • Persisting a MUD state with plain binary serialization Jeffrey Kesselman
        On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Tiago <tiago.matias@gmail.com> wrote:
        >> Tiago wrote:
        >>
        >> Not sure what you mean by "binary serialization." Just copying out of
        >> memory won't work as I'm sure you're aware.
        >>
        >
        >
        > Well, by binary serialization, I was in fact refering to a facility
        > whithin.NET apps that simplify dumping an entire object graph do disk.
        > My biggestinterest in this was just the simplicity it offers. Just
        > callSerialize(World, filestream) and it's done.
        >
        > Problem is, like you might imagine, it's all or nothing. Anything
        > besidesthat very easily becomes a pain to implement. Another problem is
        > theversioning and upgrades (like you said). It effectively renders
        > datamigrations almost impossible.
        >
        > I'm considering manually serializing to XML some big game blocks like,
        > themap, the players, the mob's and the positions of these things in the
        > world.Then it would just be a matter of fixing the references as these
        > things aredeserialized back from the disk into memory
        >
        > The generated XML would obviously be human readable and writable and
        > wouldmake upgrading possible.
        >
        > Disadvantes: A lot more to code when what I would really want to be
        > doingwas programming MOB behaviour...
        
        
        If you dont want to use a pre-built solution, have considered using a
        real RDBMS like mysql?
        
        Not that hard to use really (at least from Java thanks to JDBC) and very
        very flexible.
      • • Persisting a MUD state with plain binary serialization Mike Oxford
        • • Persisting a MUD state with plain binary serialization Tiago
        • Persisting a MUD state with plain binary serialization Tiago.matias@gmail.com
• [DESIGN] Clojure? Matt Cruikshank
• • [DESIGN] Clojure? Richard Tew
  • • [DESIGN] Clojure? Matt Cruikshank