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Arianne XP

Arianne is a multiplayer online games framework and engine to develop turn based and real time games. It provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. The server is coded in Java and uses Python for your game description, provides a MySQL backend and uses an UDP transport channel to communicate with dozens of players.

Arianne XP is a complete implementation of the network protocol described in Marauroa, in standard ISO C++, and fully tested with test cases. It is using SDL, SDL_net, cppUnit, Python and SWIG.

The point is to be able to connect to an Marauroa server using this framework, and allow creating games using Python as the development language.

Requirements

Before you even try to compile ariannexp please go and download - SDL 1.2.x
- SDL_net 1.2.x

You will also need if you want to get working pyarianne - SWIG 1.13.21

Python 2.3

Instructions for Linux

To build Arianne ( please don't install it ) use the next commands one after the other:

aclocal
autoheader
libtoolize
automake --add-missing
autoconf
./configure
make

Then if everything went as it should be, you will have two things mainly:

./AIGladiator/AIGladiator
This is a test client for connecting to gladiators and fight ( for you ). It does nothing, and it is not interactive.

./libFramework/pyarianne
This directory contains the module needed to develop your own pythons clients See test.py and execute it by doing

python test.py

If you want to develop your own client you should read:

Instructions for Windows

Congratulations brave friend!.

Just install SDL, SDL_net and cppUnit so that it is reachable by Visual Studio. I actually created a folder called Development and placed two folders inside: - include
- lib

Then just copy everything that is in include folder to our Development/include, apply the same procedure for lib.

Now simple configure Visual Studio to find that folders at Include paths and Library paths.

You shouldn't modify the original project files to do this.

Now, simply Generate the solution.

What it does

The test case connect to a Marauroa server and proceed with a normal login, choose character and logout operation.
There is no game here... just go the games at:

http://arianne.sourceforge.net

Things that need to be done and I can't do by myself

Add proper installation routines
Add check in configure.in for SWIG and Python (done by Bubelgum)
Remove static path at libFramework/Makefile.am (done by Bubelgum)
Make clean to work correctly (done by Bubelgum)
Make dist and distclean to work correctly (distclean done by Bubelgum)