Volity.net: An Interesting OSS Online Gaming Engine
There’s a new site out there called Volity (as in frivolity, get it?), which has accomplished something very interesting for game designers. They’ve created an open source platform for hosting online multiplayer turn based games.
They seem to be focused primarily around the board game and card game model, sort of like yahoo and aol’s game rooms (if they’re still even around). This is exciting to me, as it’s perfect for a few of the games I’ve had in mind. The thought that I could design things with a board game feel, but with a level of computer automation to make difficult and monotonous tasks possible (like controlling a zombie horde), is very exciting.
I expect to be working on some games for this platform as soon as my current prototype design is done.
