Project Description

Core game services, frameworks and templates for desktop, mobile and web game developers.

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Welcome to the Habitat Project.

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Kickoff officially planned for 11/11/11! Follow us on Twitter @HabitatStatus for developer news!

Project Name

Habitat

Summary

Habitat is a set of tools to create ecosystems for games, including game marketing and seo tools, player and community services, payment tool integration, engine and asset frameworks and more.

Project Goals

• Create an Ecosystem Framework
  • Create a web template for game marketing and community (template)
  • Create a mobile environment to extend the game community
  • Create game identity services (profiles, metadata utilities) (component)
  • Create game social engine (component)
  • Create achievement and reputation services (solo, cooperative, competitive, rankings, etc.) (component)
  • Create game context services (auditing, player, game world) – e.g. API for community integration, e.g. 3rd party applications
  • Create payment provider integration tools (component)
  • For the .NET version, create NuGet packages
• Create Game Development Tools
  • Create a standard game data model
  • Create a markup language for game elements, plot and story creation (GCML) (for RPG type Turn-based games)
  • Create a designer for the markup language
  • Create a Real-time Game Framework
  • Create a Turn-based Game Framework
  • Create reference games for various platforms (Desktop / Mobile / etc.)
• Create Reference Applications
  • Player Profile
  • Management Dashboard
• Create servers and peer to peer client software
  • Marketplaces
  • Achievement, reputation and ladder peer trackers
  • Content server

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