I want an application for a game so players are able to play in LAN mode against each others.
The game is Warcraft 3, this would include:
- Warcraft 3 : The Frozen Throne and;
- Warcraft 3 : Reign of Chaos
Both games will have their own channel.
Just to give you an idea this is a bit like Garena but with WAY less features, and a bit like Hamachi, but with more features...
http://www.garena.com/product/index.html
What would be needed:
- Players download the executable from the internet, and install it.
- They open the application, and are asked to Login or register.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/5395/logink.jpg
- Once logged in, they arrive in the Home of the application, where they choose to enter weither The Frozen Throne channel, or the Reign of Chaos channel.
- Once in the channels, it is like a chat, and we see a list of the players on the right, with a flag on the left of their name to know from which country they are from.
- Next to player names, each player can see the ping they have to each of the players.
- In there, players will probably have to choose the Path of their game, for example Warcraft3.exe, and then click Start Game, so the application opens the game.
For example:
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4489/settingg.jpg
- When the game is opened, a player can go in LAN and create (host) a game, and other players can join this game.
- There would also be a button in the application, close to the chat section, that players can press and it would automatically search a game for them, and match them against another player who is also searching. Once the match is found, the player with the lowest ping, or better internet, will be designed as the host, so he hosts the game, and the other player can join and they play their game.
- The games played via "Auto-match" will count as real games, the statistics will be recorded for each player. For example if I won 5 games and lost 0 games using the auto-match making system, players can click on my name and a simple little box would open and they would see 5 Wins 0 Losses. They would also see who were my last opponents, for example :
Chico vs player1 Win Download Replay
Chico vs player2 Win Download Replay
Chico vs player3 Win Download Replay
Chico vs player4 Win Download Replay
Chico vs player5 Win Download Replay
If there are more than 5 matches, there would be a scroll down button.
The replays after each games, if possible, are automatically saved and sent to my web server... IF IT'S TOO HARD, FORGET THAT.
Some restrictions features would be needed to avoid abuse.
- For example, only one account on my application can be registered per IP adress per week.
- A player cannot match against another player using the auto-search system more than 1 time/2 hours.
- As the admin, I need some control over players, for example if I find a player cheats or says bad
words in the channels etc, I will be able to ban him for a week.
That's about it, once all of this is done in a good looking/user-friendly and in a quality way, I will maybe have more features to add in a next project.
Thanks
