Board Game Arena

Thanks for putting up the two latest technical presentations; they were very interesting! One thing I failed to pick up on from the BGA Framework presentation is how the client browser receives notifications from the BGA server. What mechanism is used to achieve this? Does the client continually poll the server to see if a notification is waiting, or does the client hold open an HTTP stream? Or am I just over-thinking this?

Hello,

You are not overthinking

We are using a Comet technology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29

(Currently, we are using HTTP long polling system).

But don't be afraid: the BGA framework is taking care of all this (complex) part: from the developer point of view you just have to push your data and they are received on client side.

Cheers,

sourisdudesert wrote:Hello,

You are not overthinking

We are using a Comet technology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29

(Currently, we are using HTTP long polling system).

But don't be afraid: the BGA framework is taking care of all this (complex) part: from the developer point of view you just have to push your data and they are received on client side.

Cheers,

That is, you take away all the fun!

ehy souris,i asked in the developer subforum but i got no reply,what do i need to do if i want to partecipate? is this thing even already out?

It isn't out yet. If you're interested, send them an email, and they'll contact you when it's available.

I have designed an abstract game that works really well. Is there some place where I could find a willing developer?