Talk:HowToWriteAdventureGamesUsingArianne

hi miguel, I have started work on this document, adding and fixing and stuff. I am trying to work it into a state that is good enough for a book. This means I am increasing the wording and changing the language structure but never changing the essence of what you have written. So it may seem quite alot changes but dont worry, im not trying to make it mine! ;)

So basicly, maybe we should do this: You keep working on the version here on the Wiki - i will keep a copy on my PC in Word which is the editted version, and whenever you add to the Wiki I will update my local copy and make any necessary fixes. Then when you are complete, hopefully I will be too and I will upload the fixed version in one go. Ths avoids us getting confused if we are both editting the one wiki version at the same time. that sound ok?

Some Notes: (just some thoughts about how to improve the doc over time)

• In actual version for publishing, make better index, ie Chapter titles should also be numbered, like (1.0) Introduction... cant do it here cause they appear double in the index above.

• Include comprehensive glossary of terms, and appendicies with API documentation

steve

Feedback

As someone who is an absolute newbie (I started to read about Arianne project and Marauroa framework yesterday!), I didn't have the courage to do some modification to the article myself. Nonetheless imho there seems to be a number of issues with the article, that even if not totally wrong, seem to be rather confusing to someone (like me) without any background knowledge. So I decided to drop you a line or two naming a few suggested edits.

Title and Naming Convention

As far as I understood the framework itself is called Maraurora rather than Arianne, which is the name of the wohle project. Especially which release to pick in the following sentence is rather confusing.

"You should always grab the latest release of Arianne from http://arianne.sourceforge.net"

Following the given link leads to https://arianne-project.org/about.html

mapacman ??

The introduction to Section Technology used reads:

"To implement mapacman we are going to use Arianne, our multiplayer online game engine."

Shouldn't it be something like this?

"To implement a mapacman Stendhal like game we are going to use Arianne Maraurora, our multiplayer online game engine."

Zone naming scheme

The embedded images both in section Basic Description and World design are comprised of zones labeled "Farm", "Village" and "Forrest". The text refers to zones labeled "City", "Village", "Plains" and "Forrest".

There seem to be two issues here:

• The zone called "Village" in the image is called "City" in the text.
• The zone called "Farm" in the image is called "Village" in the text.
• The third zone in the image is missing a label. In the text it is referenced as "Plains"

Network architecture

The section Technology used makes the following claim.

"Arianne uses the UDP transport protocol"

Other sources state that rather TCP is used.

Which one is right? Maybe ist was a historic version that used UDP?

-- Mikyra 2017-09-05