Arianne [opensource]

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What is [url=\"http://arianne.sourceforge.net/?arianne_url=content/news\"][u]Arianne[/u][/url]?

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.

Our reference client engines are coded using Java and the C language in order to achieve maximum portability.

Arianne has been in development since 1999 and has evolved from a tiny application written in pseudo-C++ to a powerful, expandable but simple server framework, running on the Java platform, and a portable client framework, written in bare C to allow total portability of arianne's clients. Arianne's server is totally client agnostic.

Since the beginning, the key concept at the heart of Arianne's development has been KISS: Keep it simple, stupid!

How is it licensed?

Arianne has always been an Open source project, written and released under the GNU GPL license. We believe the right way is the open source way and we want you to have the power to change, edit and configure whatever you want, both on the clients and server. Arianne always welcomes your contributions and modifications to the code to create the best possible open source reference platform for game content providers.