#nextstep - for those who don't know...

[pixelbat]

Last night Sk89q reached out to the dev community to organize a centralized collective approach and deciding where the multiplay community goes from here, considering Bukkit is most likely not coming back. There was a "town hall" style meeting on irc.esper.net #nextstep, a lot of the lead managers from many projects were there, including representation from Forge, Sprout, Glowstone, Canary, MCserver, and Curse. There is an on going discussion still taking place, and all are welcome to hit up the IRC.

There is also an ongoing doc to organize and document the discussions... https://docs.google.com/document/d/12RV9FEe7wsowfAd_fVML1tNs3MplYIQ090CO41ejsvA/preview?sle=true#

All and all it looks like a promising start, and competing projects seem to want to team up for the greater good of multiplayer MC.

 

[kill_da_trolls]

Very informative. However, if a new API was to be made, who would take the initiative to start such development? It could take months to be delivered in the long run, while bigger networks are sitting with their custom JARs.

 

[pixelbat]

I think a completely fresh API is not the popular consensus. The fact that it would take a long time and a lot of extra work was noted.

 

[kill_da_trolls]

GlowstoneMC seems promising as is, what are the current setbacks of it?

 

[pixelbat]

GlowstoneMC seems promising as is, what are the current setbacks of it?

Well it still has a lot of work to go. Not much works. It's virtually Classic MC, can pretty much only place blocks.

 

[pixelbat]

The new projects been named "Sponge", more info about it here... http://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/2foll6/weve_gotten_together_developers_from_spout_forge/