3dpong request for hosting

[Wade Brainerd]

I'm thinking of the case where there are 5 people connected to a  
3dpong activity.  Two are playing, the rest are watching, waiting to  
play the winner.  Some overall score needs to be maintained, saved to  
the journal etc.

Someone has to maintain the list, and if they leave then someone else  
has to take it over.

There are currently open bugs with the Connect activity for these  
issues... So it would be nice if the solution could be reusable.

Wade

On Jan 11, 2008, at 7:04 PM, "Benjamin M. Schwartz" <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu 
 > wrote:

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> Samuel Klein wrote:
>> Yes, it would help to have distributed network services such as ones
>> that let you say "join the next available connect/pong game"
> This is easy to implement within the current sharing framework.  It  
> just
> requires each game to pair off users as they join the activity.
>
>> and "pass
>> this message to wadeb when he reconnects".
> This is much harder, and much more interesting.  At the beginning of  
> the
> project, there was much discussion of a store-and-forward network,  
> so that
> students could send e-mail and use other non-real-time internet  
> services, as
> long as they occasionally meshed with someone who occasionally had  
> internet
> access.  This is still a worthy goal, but it has slipped in  
> priority, to the
> point of being forgotten.
>
> - --Ben
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