[Sugar-devel] Collaborative game using Etoys

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 31.05.2009, at 19:40, Martin Bleichner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to implement a (kind of) social science experiment, and  
> would like to do that in squeak/etoys.
> For that I would like to connect four computers. On each computer  
> you see a shared screen. Each user can manipulate one aspect on that  
> screen.
> More specifically: There is one ball in the center of the screen.  
> Each of the users can move the ball in only one direction (up, down,  
> left or right).
> They control the ball together.
>
> I was pointed to this mailinglist for help.
>
> Is something like this possible?
> What would I need for it?
> I would really appreciate some help. Put it simple, I use etoys for  
> a reason :) Thanks.

If you only intend to run this under Sugar (which was not clear when  
you asked on the squeak-dev list) then the Telepathy "D-Bus Tubes"  
using the Squeak DBus bindings should be the simplest way to implement  
collaboration:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/Shared_Sugar_Activities

- Bert -


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