[Icehouse] online gaming (was Re: Shotgunning)

[Brian Campbell]

On Jul 19, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Dale Newfield wrote:

> Timothy Hunt wrote:
>> Some of the pyramid games would be great.  However, Icehouse and
>> IceTowers, because of their "no turn" nature, would have problems
>> because of lag issues.  Not just that, but placing precision is so
>> important in icehouse, I'm really not sure how they would handle  
>> that.
>
> http://www.efran.org/embassy/xicehouse.html

I just got this to build and run on Mac OS X. It took a tiny bit of  
tweaking to the Makefile, but works surprisingly well for something  
written over 10 years ago and not actively maintained.

I can't seem to get the server working on my web host though. It  
builds, and runs, and I can connect to it from clients on my Mac, I  
even see the server logging that the client connected, but the  
clients always report 0 users connected, and the game never starts. I  
wonder if there's some kind of endian issue between the systems.