Web: http://excalibur.insanedevs.com
Project Excalibur is an open source game server framework and engine to develop MMORPGs 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 provides a MySQL backend.
Exodus: For the beginning platform will support a well known MMORPG Lineage 2 (Interlude Chronicle). The reasons for this choice are:
- [li]Lineage 2 is a well known game and people will be attracted to join this community (that does not mean that development will focus on Lineage 2, but the framework development and its genericity).[/li]
[li]Already there are many emulators for this MMORPG and we can learn a lot from them.[/li]
[li]Why Java? I like it more than any other programming language ;D, but the main reasons are: scalability, performance and portability
.[/li][li]About MySQL backend for now is enough, but in the future I want to add support for different database providers.[/li]
Goals:
- [li]Open Source Project 4ever[/li]
[li]Best MMORPG Server Framework[/li]
[li]Flawless Software Architecture[/li]
[li]High Stability[/li]
[li]High Scalability[/li]
[li]High Performance[/li]
[li]Secure[/li]
[li]No bugs[/li]
[li]No memory leaks[/li]
[li]Cross-platform software [/li]
[li]Automated tests[/li]
My expectations from the project and how I think things will happen:
- [li]We will not start from scratch, but we'll start at the current stage of aCis (acis.i-live.eu), I take this opportunity to thank the aCis's community and to congratulate Tryskell for the great work they do.[/li]
[li]I want to mention very clearly, this project is NOT a fork for l2j or other similar projects, my goal has nothing to do strictly related to Lineage 2, but it's a well known game and will be a great help to attract more people to get involved.[/li]
[li]We will continue to sync L2 side of the project, from time to time, to keep interested and active community.[/li]
[li]Next step will be to clean-up and redesigned server architecture.[/li]
[li]Automated tests, there will be no new class, commited in core side, without its own test file.[/li]
[li]When we consider that it is suitable, we will add support for Lineage 2 Gracia Final, in the best case this will happen in 4-5 months.[/li]
[li]Well, what's next? Aion in 7-8 months and WoW in 1 year. If these predictors seem unreal, I want to mention that I am not interested to create a 100% emulator for these games, but to increase genericity of platform to be prepared for anything.[/li]
Team:
For now is just me. I know it sounds silly, and many times in life happened to me, people to doubt what I can do, but I managed to prove otherwise ;D . I don't plan to work on this alone, I'm sure lot of people will join and help and a lot more will leech >:( .
Even if 100 devs will want to join the team, I will accept all who know what they doing, but for now I'm the only one who will can commit. I am very strict about code quality so I prefer to personally check every new line of code.
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