This page links to the various articles that have been published about Space Tyrant, a multithreaded, network socket programming Linux game server project in C.
Read below for the history and overview or just click these links for the articles:
Then, on March 27, 2005, ST was promoted to a crude chatserver.
On June 26, 2005, Space Tyrant was released with many shiny new abilities. Players can now deploy fighters to guard sectors, navigate with the aid of an autopilot, rank the various players in the universe, and sleep peacefully knowing their alternate universe is being backed up constantly by a sporty new backup thread. Yes, good times are surely upon us.
(telnet to my ST server)
The current development version of the code is usually at http://librenix.com/st/st.c but the individual articles link to the specific versions discussed in each article.
You can mail me about the project at spacetyrant [at] librenix.com -- or you can just telnet into Space Tyrant, as listed above, and send me a radio message. I'm likely to get that faster. ;)
The Space Tyrant project has a new website, SpaceTyrant.com, where the latest source code is always available. Also, new articles about ST programming and about ST gameplay will be posted there as they come available.
Information on The Last Resort follows. TLR is one of the two games that Space Tyrant is intended to replace someday. Space Tyrant has a long way to go before it replicates TLR's 25,000 lines of C code. So far, it has reused only about 40 lines of TLR code, a handy 'bit-plane' sort dating back to 1998.
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Read below for the history and overview or just click these links for the articles:
- Space Tyrant: A threaded game server project in C
- Space Tyrant: A threaded C game project: First Code
- Space Tyrant: A multiplayer network game for Linux
- Space Tyrant: Multithreading lessons learned on SMP hardware
Today we kick off a new multithreaded, network socket programming project which we will call Space Tyrant. Our mission is to write an open source, multiplayer, networked, strategy game in the C programming language. The goal of this project is to make a solid code base which implements a simple space trading game upon which other games can then be built. The game will be a subset of The Last Resort (TLR) that currently runs at Ioresort.com. This project will be a learning exercise for me as well as for any interested readers. The current state of the source code will be released with each article update.Source code to ST, then just an echo server, was not released.
Then, on March 27, 2005, ST was promoted to a crude chatserver.
This is the first code release of Space Tyrant. This is an early stage of development and, at this point, only implements the listening thread, the two IO threads for each player connection, and a skeletal game logic thread that does little beyond proof-of-concept code.Next, on May 30, 2005, ST started to resemble some sort of incomplete text game.
It’s now possible to connect to the game via telnet and to create an account, log in, and be issued a ship. Once you’re logged in, there is a universe to explore filled with ports for buying and selling goods and planets for scooping free goods. From those trading activities you can earn money, called microbots. Other than trading to earn more money, you only use your microbots to buy fighters -- which you can use to attack other players or the neutral fighters that guard some sectors.As of this release, the source code was placed under the GPL, version 2.
On June 26, 2005, Space Tyrant was released with many shiny new abilities. Players can now deploy fighters to guard sectors, navigate with the aid of an autopilot, rank the various players in the universe, and sleep peacefully knowing their alternate universe is being backed up constantly by a sporty new backup thread. Yes, good times are surely upon us.
If you’re looking for a planet, type the ‘L’ command that you would normally use to land on a planet in your sector. In the absence of a planet, the L key will engage the autopilot which will search for the nearest planet and give you a ‘/’ command to autowarp to it.There is normally a copy of the development version of the server running on my decTOP on port 23. To access it, type (or click, if it works for you) the following command:
(telnet to my ST server)
The current development version of the code is usually at http://librenix.com/st/st.c but the individual articles link to the specific versions discussed in each article.
You can mail me about the project at spacetyrant [at] librenix.com -- or you can just telnet into Space Tyrant, as listed above, and send me a radio message. I'm likely to get that faster. ;)
The Space Tyrant project has a new website, SpaceTyrant.com, where the latest source code is always available. Also, new articles about ST programming and about ST gameplay will be posted there as they come available.
Information on The Last Resort follows. TLR is one of the two games that Space Tyrant is intended to replace someday. Space Tyrant has a long way to go before it replicates TLR's 25,000 lines of C code. So far, it has reused only about 40 lines of TLR code, a handy 'bit-plane' sort dating back to 1998.
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