The scrolling text goes too quick to read all xP
Nice game though.

Great job on this one and a very nice website.

Will you be implementing some sort of lobby where all servers can be found?
And will you redesign the gameplay so cooperative puzzles can be made?
When I was working on this I had been long thinking about the gameplay. It's a complicated task.
Still planning to complete my browser version with vitalize. Well the browser part works, just the opening keydoors on all clients etcetera is hard to achieve.

It looked like you worked on it solelly, and stopped working on it because your laptop died on you, and you just were showcasing what you had in order to inspire others.

Well actually, it's both. But the 'searching members' part gives more value to it, so let's stick to that   .

So.. the problem is it runs at ~1/4 second per frame..

Yes. If you think you're able to solve it in MMF2, do PM !

Also, the server will be down in the nights (somewhere between 00:00 and 10:00 GMT). You'll see a "can't connect" text appear during that time. Until I am in posession of a virtual server, which may take quite a while yet, it'll remain this way.

So.. What's the problem here? Is it lag or jerkiness..? What are you trying to accomplish?

The problem is jerkiness. I can't send data any faster than a set amount of time, currently this time is around 1/4th of a second. So the position of all the clients are updated every 1/4th second from the server, and the client should interpolate all the Juni's that have moved between the previous and the next position. The way of interpolating is the problem. How to move Juni correctly, taking potential lags and such in mind as well.

Alright, I just couldn't bear it any longer. This project is getting covered in dust while my notebook is under repair. For two months I haven't worked on it, but I show you this now nevertheless. I just have to give in. I'm sorry for not being strong enough.

Knytt Alternate Stories, an early W.I.P. browser based knytt engine running on my crappy bedroom server.
To use, install the vitalize plugin. You can get it by following the link that'll pop up. If firefox addon wont work, use offline installation.

http://212.182.179.183:36080/KnyttAS/


The idea:
MMO Knytt through browser. No custom levels, let alone custom use, for a long time to come, only my tiny test level.
If you don't see anything moving, that's because movement is only done at server side. Ha-hah. And I'm not sitting there all day steering Juni around. If you really really wanna see movement, catch me on MSN, or niff's IRC channel. Of course, it's supposed to have client side movement, but my notebook decided to crack its motherboard and cause havoc.


The mechanics:
-There's an MMF2 server application running (a modified knytt source), and a client-side vitalize MMF2 application.
-The server sends an initial background snapshot of the tiles and stuff to the client, without Juni, objects, or enemies. That took easily care of the tile creation.
-Then the server sends animation and position data each 1/x second to the client. The client creates a Juni character and animates and places it according to the received data.
-Well, that's really all.


While I can't do any development without my developer notebook, I'm still looking for help.

1) There are loads of MMF2 addons that can not be used by vitalize, the movement object being one of them. So I'll need to somehow make Juni move in a nice way, without stuttering (as happening now due to data being send every fourth of a second or so). It's a major problem that needs some special thought. Anyone?

2) There are a lot of gameplay problems occuring with multiplayer knytt. Like in a puzzle scenario, how would dying work when it easily screws up the multiplayer puzzle? Someone needs to map these out!

3) If you wanna jump in on this project, I have set up a subversioning system (SVN), and you're free to dev away with it. Just drop me a PM. You'll be having fun with level management, object creation, and mapping out all the other stuff I hadn't thought of.

That's all for now, I'll let you know when they fixed the notebook and of course totaly erased my entire hard disk.

Yours truly,
Joozey

I wouldn't support a custom objects engine. I'm not sure if I like KSA either, but who am I to judge. Knytt Stories is fine as Nifflas left it IMO, but an additional online option where people see people would be nice, but as said, very hard. I am eager to see what Dynamite is able to make .

He did that already Didriking.
But Dynamite needs to finish this and be done with it, it wont let him sleep at night  .