Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce the next development release of the gzochi game development framework.
gzochi (/zoʊ-tʃiː/) is a programming framework for developing massively multiplayer online games in Guile Scheme, and distributed middleware for hosting them. It abstracts and simplifies some of the most challenging and error-prone aspects of online game development: Concurrency, data persistence, and network communications. A very thin client library can be embedded to provide connectivity for client applications written in any language. This is another large release, with a focus on making more functionality available when running a cluster of gzochi application servers coordinated by a meta server. Building upon the previous release, this version enhances the distributed storage engine to support cooperative lock release, allowing access to data by every node in the cluster; and adds message routing capabilities to the meta server for handling point-to-point and broadcast message delivery across nodes. In addition, this release includes the following notable changes: * Wireshark protocol dissectors for the client-server and server-meta server wire protocols are now included in the distribution * The web admin consoles launched by the server and meta server provide more information about the topology of the cluster * ...and more! As usual, see the NEWS files in the distribution for details This is a development release; the framework is not bug-free. Nonetheless, there's extensive server and client documentation, and the distribution includes three example games with heavily-annotated source code. For more information, visit the web site at http://www.nongnu.org/gzochi/ or check out the project page on Savannah, at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gzochi/ -- you can pick up the release from the downloads section. Regards, Julian
