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Name:	Prairie Games
Date Posted:	Dec 04, 2006
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I have been thinking about multiplayer technology and integration with web content... specifically with personal networking sites, like GGE. I've also been meaning to checkout TGB for the last few months...

So, I snagged a copy of Torque Game Builder Pro a couple days ago and have been devouring it... TGB is very, very cool... and extremely familiar if you are experienced with TGE.

I've worked on web stuff with TGE a few times... once with an ActiveX control, once with a wxWidgets library, and now with LLMozLib from Linden Labs (the makers of Second Life). This is a great library and the third time is the charm:

It uses standard Torque GUI code... and so will be trivial to get running on TGE and TGEA. It can also be scripted with TorqueScript and Python :) The uses are really endless (interactive game docs and tutorials, Flash, YouTube, updates, forums, account management, microtransactions, in-game bug and user feedback, etc)... and combined with the Twisted framework... my gosh, that's networking power!

We're planning on releasing this technology sometime in 2007...

Check out this demo video: http://www.prairiegames.com/torque_web_tech.wmv

-Josh Ritter
President
Prairie Games, Inc

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Dylan Jones (Dec 04, 2006 at 22:20 GMT)

Josh,

Do you Sleep?

Jake Sindelir (Dec 04, 2006 at 22:22 GMT)

thats awesome... if i used TGB i would definately get that in a heartbeat.

is there something like that in TGE, or you think you could do that too :)

keep up the great work... and get some sleep eventually LOL

Joshua Dallman (Dec 04, 2006 at 22:34 GMT)

nice! I especially like your suggestion of hooking GGE to inspection of players within games, very out of the box thinking there. also, the "coming 2007" logo was boss :)

bank (Dec 04, 2006 at 23:32 GMT)

tried to open a torque inside torque? :)
i'm about this one
Nice stuff Josh! looking forward for more news on that :)

asmaloney (Andy) (Dec 04, 2006 at 23:40 GMT)

Vewwy intewesting! Looks like it could set the stage for some cool innovations...

I like the Bolero soundtrack.

Edit: Arg! Doesn't allow accented characters.
Edited on Dec 04, 2006 23:41 GMT

Matthew Langley (Dec 05, 2006 at 00:02 GMT)

Very cool Josh Ritter... watching that video has sparked a million different creative thoughts in my head of the new Doc Framework integrated inside of TGB :)

David Higgins (Dec 05, 2006 at 00:30 GMT)

@Josh, as your using the gecko engine, what are the cross-platform capabilities of the code -- can it be run in OSX, Linux and Windows -- or does it use windows specific functionalities, since it appears your putting something similiar to an activex control in the GUI -- like the resource bank mentioned (which can't be cross-platform since its activex).

I've actually be working on a GUI Kit that includes some generic UI elements (most windows) which allow you to interact with online forums hosted by phpBB (easily converted to another forum system by updating some TorqueScript) -- the solution is going to be written in TorqueScript completely and require no C++ mods ...

This is a great idea, however, I'd love to see it cross-platform if at all possible ... what a great resource though

Prairie Games (Dec 05, 2006 at 01:18 GMT)

@Jake: Yes, it will be quite easy to get running on TGE and TGEA

@Joshua Dallman: It would be cool to see the Great Game Experiment integrated with games... the GGE
Badge thing really got me thinking! :)

@Matthew Langley: Yeah, for docs and interactive tutorials, and other cool stuff :)

@David Higgens: It should be quite easy to get it running on OSX.

Mike Rowley (Dec 05, 2006 at 01:21 GMT)

That looks great.

Unsung Zero (Dec 05, 2006 at 02:11 GMT)

L7 <~~~That's a box

* <~~~~This is josh

Who let him escape?
Edited on Dec 05, 2006 02:12 GMT

Joe Rossi (Dec 05, 2006 at 04:20 GMT)

Interesting, I'm sure there will be plenty of uses for this!

Timothy Aste (Dec 05, 2006 at 05:50 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

DUDE!

Justin DuJardin (Dec 05, 2006 at 17:53 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

Josh,

This is some of the coolest stuff I've seen in a long while! Sweet!

...freakin' sweet

-Justin

David Montgomery-Blake (Dec 05, 2006 at 19:51 GMT)

Great stuff, as always!

Clint Herron (Dec 05, 2006 at 21:57 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

Wow!

This is incredibly cool and inspiring!

I'm very interested in this, and my imagination is running at full tilt. :)

Now all we need is for Dreamer to package his MMO kit for TGB. ;)

David Higgins (Dec 06, 2006 at 00:07 GMT)

@Clint, the Adv Kit isn't suffecient? What do you want to see added to the Adv Kit over what is there now -- to make it meet the MMO Kit's functionalities ... that is.

Alexander "taualex" Gaevoy (Dec 06, 2006 at 05:41 GMT)

@Josh Ritter: Iglad to see it was discovered by you ;) I was toying with uBrowser for a while, but couldn't make Flash movies react on the mouse events - they play alright, but dont react to the mouse actions... did you make them work properly?

Bryce "Cogburn" Weiner (Dec 10, 2006 at 00:32 GMT)

Hey Josh... Did you ever finish up your TGEA and Python integration?

I'm having issues and hate to reinvent the wheel.

Have you packaged it as a resource? Would you be willing to share even if you havent? :)

Kevin Erkelenz (Dec 14, 2006 at 03:39 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

HAHA my RPG Developer group is the one displayed!!!

Tom Bentz (Dec 15, 2006 at 22:58 GMT)

This is really cool! Really looking forward to the resource!!!!

Lanthia Mek (May 28, 2008 at 19:00 GMT)

Did you make the llmozlib works with flash's mouse events?
Could you please post the changes or tell how you did it?

Thanks in advance.

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