/2009/02/18/enabling-online-gaming/ Commercial gaming for Linux Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:57:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 /2009/02/18/enabling-online-gaming/comment-page-1/#comment-58 michael Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:42:17 +0000 /?p=81#comment-58 That is a really good idea. We have it done by email simply because we have an interface to easily send email from our code. We don't have an interface for anything else easily available. However I like the idea, the problem comes in finding time to do it! Right now we limit emails to one an hour for any game to make sure there isn't a ton of spam being sent. Maybe some kind of toolbar icon would work too, that sits on your desktop toolbar and reports game numbers... hrm, plenty of possibilities, thanks for the idea. That is a really good idea. We have it done by email simply because we have an interface to easily send email from our code. We don’t have an interface for anything else easily available. However I like the idea, the problem comes in finding time to do it!
Right now we limit emails to one an hour for any game to make sure there isn’t a ton of spam being sent. Maybe some kind of toolbar icon would work too, that sits on your desktop toolbar and reports game numbers… hrm, plenty of possibilities, thanks for the idea.

]]> /2009/02/18/enabling-online-gaming/comment-page-1/#comment-57 RK Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:27:05 +0000 /?p=81#comment-57 Rather than email, which by design is not a realtime communication medium, why not set up an XMPP (jabber, google talk, etc.) server for sending out real-time game-start notifications? There could be one contact per game, and people could add the contacts for only those games they're interested in. Notifications could also then be sent out only to people who are currently online, rather than spamming everyone (while they're asleep, at work, etc.). Rather than email, which by design is not a realtime communication medium, why not set up an XMPP (jabber, google talk, etc.) server for sending out real-time game-start notifications? There could be one contact per game, and people could add the contacts for only those games they’re interested in.
Notifications could also then be sent out only to people who are currently online, rather than spamming everyone (while they’re asleep, at work, etc.).

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