[gameprogrammer] Re: Rich Interent Application System for Games

Chris Nystrom wrote:

> I call it an application browser.
>
>The advantage is you only have to download the application browser
>once and then can use it to run many different games, or other
>applications, without downloading, or installing them.
>
>Also, the application browser and the game itself would not have to be
>the same architecture. You could have a browser for Win32 and the game
>could be unix code.
>They would just have to understand the same protocol.
>
>Another way to think of it is as a sort of universal game client.
>
>In my opinion the system itself is a lot of fun to program for and
>play with, even though the API, so far, is only to test the underlying
>structure and also to determine what is possible. However it is more
>fun in environments that perform well, so if I can increase the
>performance I can increase the domain where it might be useful.
>  
>
Sounds very interesting and ambitious.

My only suggestion would be to move more of the application client-side, 
perhaps with a platform-independant scripting language so the client 
could control more of the program thus reducing the amount of network 
traffic needed. From what I understand of your description the server is 
doing pretty much all the control and the client is just drawing what 
it's being told to. Don't ask me about how to implement the scripting 
stuff, it's just an idea :)


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