Sun’s Darkstar Project
This morning I found a very interesting open source project by Sun called Darkstar.
“Project Darkstar is the game industry’s first open source, enterprise grade, highly scalable, online game server, ” defined on Darkstar’s site http://projectdarkstar.com.
I went ahead a created a user account and then trolled the forums for info nuggets. From the the read of it, DS is in the early stages and is still in single-mode operation. The hop to multi-mode looks like will happen when 1.0 is released sometime soon, hopefully.
In sum, I see great potential for niche virtual world projects besides just gaming platforms. As Sir Gordon Sumner onced yodeled, “I’ll be watching you!”
Mace 4:54 pm on 2007/12/20 Permalink |
Actually as far as user friendly low overhead goes, you can find a good 3D designer to model your stick built home and create a flash interface that you can put on the web with more ease than creating something in SL then trying to explain to your prospective clients how to navigate a virtual world. I am not agasint the idea of real estate sales via Second Life or Kaneva but thelearning curve for the clients may be prove a heavy thorn in the paw to people who rely on quick closing and comission sales.