We decided to offer 2 network services for our project:
- Install a web server based on LAMP and provide a service. Our initial intention is to offer an FTP server, but we will also experiment with the CMS WordPress.
- Install a 3D game that had multiplayer functionality, and could therefore be played over a network.
LAMP is a package of software applications that enables a web server to be installed on a PC, the acronym stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Apache is the server software, MySQL is database and PHP is the script used to make dynamic pages. There is also WAMP and MAMP which can be used for Windows and Mac based systems.
Our original plan was to run a basic game called MineCraft, we had seen this on the internet and it seemed like the perfect candidate as appeared to be fairly simple to implement. However we soon found out due to it’s popularity, MineCraft was no longer a free game so we gave up on this idea. Some further research was needed, after browsing the below links, leading to further forums and post, we decided upon a game called AssaultCube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_games
AssaultCube is a 3D shooter which is a few years old, this should ensure most of the issues are ironed out, and it will also run on our server and laptops. The game is also cross platform so will run on Linux, Windows and Mac.
IT12B Network Project 