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Name:	Prairie Games
Date Posted:	May 26, 2005
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Minions of Mirth Web Server

continued from a previous plan

We've embedded a full web server in the Minions of Mirth World Server!!!

From work (and elsewhere), players will be able to log into live worlds and check ladder results, news items, who's online, and even chat with people that are playing the game. Players will be able to browse their characters online, trade items, coordinate raids and guild activities, etc... Immortals will have access to an interactive shell and can administer their world and zone servers remotely :)

Again, this is being served BY THE MINIONS OF MIRTH WORLD SERVER :) Think about that for a second... oooohhhh yeeeeaaaahhhhhh :)

-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games

PS: Coding for the web pretty much makes my brain explode. Huge props to Rick Overman for the work he's done on this site :)

Recent Blog Posts

List:	03/29/08 - TGEA 1.7 Build System and Embedded Python 03/14/08 - MegaTerrains - TGEA Update 01/18/08 - Minions of Mirth: Undead Wars Expansion 01/04/08 - Physics Overhaul - Video 12/26/07 - Web Integration - Video 12/21/07 - New MMO Client - Trees - Day/Night Video 12/18/07 - Minions of Mirth - 1.26 - Holiday Edition! 11/28/07 - TGB/TGEA integration first pass

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Adam deGrandis (May 27, 2005 at 01:05 GMT)

WHA?! Josh, kudos! You sure know how to always have some awesome to show off. :)

Joshua Dallman (May 27, 2005 at 01:53 GMT)

now that looks really cool!

OneST8 (May 27, 2005 at 01:53 GMT) Resource Rating: 4

Simply brilliant!

Matthew Langley (May 27, 2005 at 02:05 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

Wow!!!

J. Erick Christgau (May 27, 2005 at 02:06 GMT)

Yes, that is absolutely awesome.

I noticed you highlighted "trade items". Well, if you put in some kind of Auction House, Bazaar, whatever zone or building or system make sure that is accessable from the web too!

Lack of web access to that system is a big complaint by some people about WoW. There's really no excuse that almost the whole non-combat game can be done over the web.

Seriously, why not?

Prairie Games (May 27, 2005 at 02:10 GMT)

Whee!!!

To be clear, there isn't one instance of this web site. EVERY Minions of Mirth World Server can be configured to host web access...

I actually think a substantial portion of the game should be playable via the web... people have time to dink around on a web page for a few minutes during work/weekend/home... it's much harder to find time to actually log into a 3d world :) The 3d version is like MoM Hardcore... and the web version is like MoM Casual :) Obviously the same game though...

-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games
Edited on May 27, 2005 02:12 GMT

Robert Pierce (May 27, 2005 at 02:22 GMT)

Damn, I already started doing a server based web server (for admin and such) in TorqueSCRIPT, hehe. Now I know that mine must be better!

Anyway, I will assume this is in Python, along with quite a bit of MoM?

Robert

Prairie Games (May 27, 2005 at 02:57 GMT)

Yes, Python using primarily SQLObject, Twisted, and Nevow.

-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games

Matthew Langley (May 27, 2005 at 04:01 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

That really is impressive Josh! Not that the rest of MoM isn't massively impressive.

Jay Barnson (May 27, 2005 at 04:06 GMT)

Josh continues to amaze me.

Unsung Zero (May 27, 2005 at 13:27 GMT)

The dawn of time mud codebase has an integrated webserver with a few of those features. Not the cool item trading stuff though :[ The webserver was _one_ of the things that I liked about it.
I've felt that mmorpg's should have had this feature a long time ago. Good work PrarieGames!

Johnny Hill (May 27, 2005 at 23:04 GMT)

WOW!!

You cant even slow down for a minute! I only got half of my buildings done in CS. LOL J/K Amazing!!

Kudos on top of KUDOS Man!!!

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