About Volity
Volity is a platform for creating and playing Internet-based multiplayer games, with a focus on board and card games. It provides a broad, cross-platform game-playing environment for end-users, and lets programmers rapidly create development game modules.
For an in-depth description, please consult the System Overview page of our Wiki. On the other hand, if you just want to dive in and play games, you should visit the Volity Network. Interested hackers should do both!
About this website
This website serves as an information repository of Volity developer information. The main feature here is a Wiki that serves as the Volity protocol's core documentation.
Discussion forums, client software downloads, and actual real-live Volity games can be found at our main site, volity.net. Enjoy!
Volity News
March 28, 2007
Whoops! I think I forgot about this news page in the wake of activity over on volity.net. The project's as busy as ever, but its center of web presence has shifted somewhat since we launched the Volity Network forums last fall. Between these and the core team's development blog, this here news page has been rendered rather obsolete, as have the mailing lists. Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds appropriately.
Time was that volity.org was the developers' site and volity.net the players' site, but it's come to pass that volity.net is a dynamic site for everyone's use and volity.org is a big ol' information repository, mostly useful as a home for the wiki. I'm at the start of a new recruiting push for Volity hackers, and will be doing a lot of cleanup on this site, bringing a lot of old information up to date. If you happen accross any odd or conflicting information, please drop us a line or leave a note in the forums. Thanks!
August 17, 2006
I've released version 2.0.0 of the Python libraries. This includes all the parlor support needed for Volity's micropayment system. (The bookkeeper support is still in progress.)
August 13, 2006
If the news here has been a bit slow, it's because we've been putting a lot of work into the Volity Network, our own instance of the Volity platform.
However, Gamut, the Python libraries and the Perl libraries all continue to receive regular updates and maintenance. I just released version 0.6.5 of the Perl stuff, in fact, and would like to give a shout-out to Austin Henry for doing a superb job digging up bugs in the Perl libraries.
June 23, 2006
Just a quick note to say that Jmac, Zarf and Andy will all be in Columbus for Origins next week. Look for the guys decked out in Volity company swag. When not roaming the trade show floor spreading the gospel of Volity, we'll probably be hanging out in Looney Labs' Big Experiment. We'd love to meet you!
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