What is Marauroa: Difference between revisions

Marauroa is an open source multiplayer online games framework and engine to develop turn based and real time games. It provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. The server is coded in Java and can use Python for your game description, provides a MySQL or H2 backend and uses an TCP transport channel to communicate with dozens of players. Our reference clients are coded using Java and the C language in order to achieve maximum portability and use open technologies too.

 

 

* Clients communicate with the server, and vice-versa, using a TCP portable network protocol with reliability in mind to allow a stabler experience when online game lag occurs.

* To play a game every player needs an account on the server that is identified by an username and a password.

* Players use their account to login into the server and then choose a 'player' stored under their account to play with. The server then checks the login information using the MySQL or H2 backend and loads the player into the game using the persistence engine.

* The server transparently and automatically stores players and game status modifications on the persistence engine, and also information decided by the game developer using their game definition scripts.

* The server side game rules can be written in Python to allow simple and rapid development without needing to recompile the rules engine and without having to know anything about Marauroa's internals. Games rules can also be coded in Java.

 

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