Violet Volts distributed mesh game system
This is a game system based upon the Romance game server developed by Bruce-Robert Fenn Pocock, with contributions by Tim Hays, Ed Winkelman, Gene Cronk, Robert Dawson, and others. Romance 2 is a complete re-write inspired by the Java “original” and written almost entirely in Common Lisp. However, some portions are compiled to Javascript, and there are supporting components and tools in other languages.
This game system has proven in the past versions to be very flexible and reliable; however, this new version is extremely “alpha” quality software.
Components are being added in chunks based on various test and pilot programs that have been created individually, mostly in the 2012-2017 time frame.
The pilot program for Violet Volts, from which it takes its name via anagram, is Tootsville Ⅴ, a game accessible via http://Tootsville.org/ — For details on that game, visit https://wiki-wiki.tootsville.adventuring.click/wikiwiki/
Development is being financed entirely (as of March, 2017) by the Fenn Pocock family.
Our unit tests are being developed for Travis-CI, Circle CI, and (possibly?) Codeship. Our browser integration testing is being designed for Selenium with the generous gift of support from BrowserStack for cross-platform testing on Android, Apple, and MicroSoft platforms.
At the moment, we are spending more time developing pieces and less time documenting. As of the writing, very few components have actually been put in place, and even fewer unit tests. Even the JSCL compiler version is undergoing somewhat heavy development.
If you have a serious use-case for this program, please contact Bruce-Robert Fenn Pocock directly.
In general, we do not expect this code to yet be interesting/useful to others, but we'd be happy to be proven wrong. Many hands make light work, to many eyes all bugs are shallow, et al.
This game is free software; you may play, distribute, and alter it in accordance with the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL); see LICENSE for details.
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