I got a master/authentication/manager server - any interest?
by Thomas \"Man of Ice\" Lund · in General Discussion · 09/26/2003 (1:57 am) · 70 replies
Executive summary:
I got the code for a master server that also includes authtication, registration of users as well as management of avatar/buddylists - and could easily be expanded to include clan management, persistence of inventory etc.etc. centralized.
The code is 100% free of Torque code, but uses the Torque master server protocol + my own additions for the stuff not in Torque. Runs on Linux + Windows from the same code base (C++).
I just dont know what to do with it. Thats what I'm asking you now.
Little background info:
A year ago I started coding this server for a game called c3command with 10-15 other ppl. Unfortunally our team leader has totally disappeared without a trace (yes we tried to track him down, but no luck. We fear the worst). He had the intellectual rights to the game, so we didnt want to continue down that track with possible legal problems looming. Most of the team continues on a new Torque game.
When the c3command project halted early this year I mothballed the code and worked on different projects. Around summer Fredrik Svensson (a Torque owner) contacted me and made me pull it out of cvs and look at it again. He contributed some encryption code, and we started cleaning the code.
Current status and what to do now:
We started talking about contributing the code to GG (the company), but they dont want this inhouse, but rather as a resource.
We are now in the state of either releasing this as a free/general resource as is - or to work some more on this and create some commercial thing around this. We got lots of ideas to great additions, but without some commercial support surround it, we cant work on this the way we would like too.
Add to the mix, that there is already a GPL'ed master server out there for Torque. I've tried contacting Ben to see if he is interested in joining forces on this. It seems all development on that GPL'ed version has halted, so I dont know if he has moved on to other stuff.
So the big question is what you guys see viable.
Would you e.g. be willing to pay maybe $50-$100 (whatever the right price for this is) for a working server that can handle browse lists, authentication etc.etc.etc. with nice management clients and add on code to the Torque source (as well as other engines)?
Or rather have some half finished code free available for use with only slow and minor improvements from me and Fredrik?
Or maybe not interested at all, as you use the GPL master server?
Please feel free to pitch in any ideas, questions and comments you have.
I got the code for a master server that also includes authtication, registration of users as well as management of avatar/buddylists - and could easily be expanded to include clan management, persistence of inventory etc.etc. centralized.
The code is 100% free of Torque code, but uses the Torque master server protocol + my own additions for the stuff not in Torque. Runs on Linux + Windows from the same code base (C++).
I just dont know what to do with it. Thats what I'm asking you now.
Little background info:
A year ago I started coding this server for a game called c3command with 10-15 other ppl. Unfortunally our team leader has totally disappeared without a trace (yes we tried to track him down, but no luck. We fear the worst). He had the intellectual rights to the game, so we didnt want to continue down that track with possible legal problems looming. Most of the team continues on a new Torque game.
When the c3command project halted early this year I mothballed the code and worked on different projects. Around summer Fredrik Svensson (a Torque owner) contacted me and made me pull it out of cvs and look at it again. He contributed some encryption code, and we started cleaning the code.
Current status and what to do now:
We started talking about contributing the code to GG (the company), but they dont want this inhouse, but rather as a resource.
We are now in the state of either releasing this as a free/general resource as is - or to work some more on this and create some commercial thing around this. We got lots of ideas to great additions, but without some commercial support surround it, we cant work on this the way we would like too.
Add to the mix, that there is already a GPL'ed master server out there for Torque. I've tried contacting Ben to see if he is interested in joining forces on this. It seems all development on that GPL'ed version has halted, so I dont know if he has moved on to other stuff.
So the big question is what you guys see viable.
Would you e.g. be willing to pay maybe $50-$100 (whatever the right price for this is) for a working server that can handle browse lists, authentication etc.etc.etc. with nice management clients and add on code to the Torque source (as well as other engines)?
Or rather have some half finished code free available for use with only slow and minor improvements from me and Fredrik?
Or maybe not interested at all, as you use the GPL master server?
Please feel free to pitch in any ideas, questions and comments you have.
#62
01/13/2006 (9:35 am)
My next personal project could use this, it would also help me learn methods of creating my own.
#63
01/13/2006 (2:54 pm)
Well, it sounds damn good to me!
#64
Watch this space when more is known
01/14/2006 (12:52 am)
I'm actually planning to code this right now (within the next month or so) - a modern rewrite of the above mentioned master/auth server. In the 2 years the code has been sitting on my drives a lot of tech has come out to make this easier to code. So I'll do that instead of hacking on the old stuffWatch this space when more is known
#65
01/14/2006 (2:20 am)
Sweet!
#66
01/14/2006 (3:13 am)
Excellent !!!
#67
This server you have coded is great, any idea on timescales and i think youshould release it as a pack, with documentation, that way darft people like me can learn how you did it. not sure on the price but due to the amount of dev work gone into it i think more towards the 100 mark is the right price maybe more.
Has GG not approached you about adding this into the current build of TGE?
Cheers
John
01/21/2006 (2:30 am)
HiThis server you have coded is great, any idea on timescales and i think youshould release it as a pack, with documentation, that way darft people like me can learn how you did it. not sure on the price but due to the amount of dev work gone into it i think more towards the 100 mark is the right price maybe more.
Has GG not approached you about adding this into the current build of TGE?
Cheers
John
#68
01/21/2006 (4:45 am)
I also think your should sell it as a pack but not for 100 bucks... torque costs 100 bucks so i don't think thats a fair price... I would say about 60 or something like that... jut my two cent... ^^ 
#69
01/21/2006 (8:51 am)
I'd be very interested in this... I hope it can support for example some unique items that only a few players can have in an online RPG game. That would be killer, I'd pay for that.
#70
http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/19453/9965
Thanks for sticking around!
03/10/2006 (2:12 pm)
As you possible saw in a .plan of mine recently, its up and running for Air Ace. It will be battle hardened and then the commercial viability of it as a pack will be assessed.http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/19453/9965
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