Xfire - gaming simplified

[noblemaster]

You guys ever heard about xfire: http://www.xfire.com/xf/index.php? Looks pretty similar to GameSpy. Does anybody have experience with it?

I thought adding it to my game. Any suggestions?

[Mr_Light]

I have good experience with it, it's not like GameSpy that you can actually search for servers.

you should see it more like an gaming orientated IM.

[noblemaster]

Is it possible to integrate into a Java game (application and webstart)? How do you do that?

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[Mr_Light]

I beleave you have 3 classes of functinality that you can implent

- first beeing that it shows that person x is playing the game, x-fire arranges stats based on that too
- secund beeing one click join. join a server by clicking on the person.
- third is in-game chatting for full-screen apps it uses overlay of some kind to display a simple xfire interface so you don't have to switch back to windows.

it seems that the xfire team is doing all the work, though. http://www.xfire.com/xf/modules.php?name=XFire&file=games the

one click start and stats bit is done by the xml file where you specify the file/process I think not sure how that holds up with java running the jvm and all, you should mail them I beleave they are chatty-er then most.

[noblemaster]

Thanks for the info. I will see if I get a hold of them!

[Mr_Light]

*bump*

not sure how old is this is but they released an SDK http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_game_sdk

[noblemaster]

that's cool    however, it seems like the sdk is designed for windows and C/C++ only. would be cool to have a Java SDK as well.