

Compo4All: Making Arcade Games Social Again - ekianjo
http://www.pandoralive.info/?p=185

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ParadisoShlee
This simple little idea has been keeping my OpenPandora in my hands a lot
recently. Passive social gaming has always been one of the more interesting
and non-explored parts of multiplayer.

I remember playing a TRIALS HD on my 360 and my friends are shown as a passive
dot. I kept wanting to chase that dot and beat the high score of somebody who
wasn't even playing.

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ParadisoShlee
P.S. To everybody who saw the words "Open Pandora" and laughed... the project
was taken over over a year ago and is actually running pretty smoothly.

I really like my 1Ghz (2012) model Pandora :)

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yamara
I love this as an idea to bring older games into new light, and tying it into
MAME is a fantastic idea to get a broad spread of both games and users. Plus,
a large amount of coins popped into arcades was to beat that elusive high
score, and this just makes that more relevant.

For extremely popular games, I could see adding rankings based on region or
perhaps other breakdowns, if you kept a user profile.

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ekianjo
Author here. This piece of software only runs on the Open Pandora Linux
Handheld for now, but the developer says it's very portable and it is likely
to spread to other platforms in the very near future.

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skeezix
It is very trivial to port, as theres not all that much to it right now ..
just some code to do HTTP PUT and GET to transfer RAM snapshot blobs back and
forth with the server. Opening it up (if desired) to indie and homebrew games,
other emus, other target platforms and host platforms, adding new features..
lots we can do, and hopefully part of the game, but a lot to do before we get
there :)

Or perhaps theres already an open source or standardized protocol for doing
achivements and high scoring and so forth; an open source 'game centre' etc
would be nice..

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yareally
I'd incorporate it into a mobile game for phones or tablets if it's less
annoying to users than alternative. The alternative solutions I've seen for
android at least want too much info or annoy users by persisting to ask them
if they want to use it (albeit that could also be due to the developer). An
open solution with a non invasive license would be great for us indie
developers

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kingu
Compo4All: Making Arcade Games antiSocial Again ;)

