Very interesting. If this is done well, it’s potentially a paradigm shifting synthesis of technology. (With demographically targetted vertical integration! And little bells around its ankles!)
“Looks really interesting,” we replied in response to an email we’d had from Joaquin Keller in France. And it was interesting indeed because Keller was telling us about the release of Solipsis-0.8, a p2p MMORPG with truly astounding dimensions for a, “massively shared virtual world,” as Keller and his co-developers say in their Solipsis site. “There is no server at all: it only relies on end-users’ machines.”…
At the moment, however, Solipsis, open source and running under under the GNU Lesser General Public License, is in effect a vacuum, empty of all life.
No pre-existing cities. No people. No scenarios.
Some people will find it wierd to imagine a world without God. In the Solipsis virtual world, you can have a local view only: no one can have a global view. It will, for example, be impossible to know exactly how many people are in Solipsis. “Objects” and people (avatars) are the same. They run the same code. They’re peers - nodes in a logical network that will spread all over the internet.
That’s the dream behind the solipsis project.
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