interactive story and Croquet

> We recently started the TapBot.org project to bring interactive story to
> Croquet and the Metaverse. It's our belief that interactive story will
> be the killer app of the Metaverse.
>
> Over the years there have been a few efforts to create an interactive
> story platform. Most have been monumental efforts, such as Chris
> Cawford's Storytron, and are still in development. We're trying to avoid
> a similar fate by relying on Croquet and the Metaverse for virtual world
> dynamics so we can keep TapBot's focus on building a lite story logic
> engine.
>
> We're familiar with the Croquet TVML project and hope to integrate some
> or all the work McCahill's group is doing with NPCs. Is anyone familiar
> with other efforts to bring interactive story to Croquet or similar
> projects?
>
> We're also leveraging AIML (http://www.alicebot.org/) for natural
> language support, is anyone working with Croquet and AIML?
>
> Thanks,
> Justin

> Hi All,
>
> I too have been having trouble connecting to a world outside of my  
> local network.
>
> After reading through the discussion of earlier this month I am  
> seeking some further insight.
>
> I can run the KAT demo and connect from different machines on the  
> local network but cannot connect to the external server. If I read  
> previous posts correctly I should be able to connect even though  
> the computer is connected to the internet via a NAT router.
>
> I get no errors when i connect locally, but get the following error  
> when i attempt to connect over the net:
>
> "Error: KMedia2DContainer has changed class format"
>
> when i connect locally and choose " Connect to another world" all  
> of the router addresses that i get for nearby worlds are my  
> machines local address?
>
> If on the other hand I try to connect using the SimpleDemo method  
> and choose "view known worlds" I get an empty dialogue coming up  
> that does not list anything.
>
> I have only been playing with croquet for a week, so i expect i am  
> missing something fundamental, but i have read through all of the  
> documentation i have found and many of the list posts.
>
> thanks heaps
> andrew burrell
> http://www.miscellanea.com
>
>
>
>

> Andreas,
>
> Thanks for the heads up. As part of TapBot we're also integrating and
> modifying AIML (http://www.alicebot.org/), and it falls under a GPL
> license. I've read that you can take a piece of MIT code, incorporate it
> into a GPL program, and release everything under the GPL. However I
> believe the GPL would restrict you from going the opposite direction. Am
> I correct about that?
>
> Thanks,
> justin
>
> On 21/08/07, * Andreas Raab* <[hidden email]
> <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Justin -
>
>     Good luck with your project. One thing I noticed looking at your site is
>     that you list GPLv3 as the license of choice for your software. This
>     will be problematic for combining it with Croquet (which itself comes
>     under a plain MIT-style license) so it may be advantageous to choose a
>     less restrictive license for any software you produce (MIT and BSD are
>     fine choices). Just something to be aware about (and no, I'm not trying
>     to start a license flamewar here but having been involved in relicensing
>     efforts it's good thing to make a safe choice before you have two dozen
>     developers ;-)
>
>     Cheers,
>        - Andreas
>
>     Justin Gibbs wrote:
>      > We recently started the TapBot.org project to bring interactive
>     story to
>      > Croquet and the Metaverse. It's our belief that interactive story
>     will
>      > be the killer app of the Metaverse.
>      >
>      > Over the years there have been a few efforts to create an
>     interactive
>      > story platform. Most have been monumental efforts, such as Chris
>      > Cawford's Storytron, and are still in development. We're trying
>     to avoid
>      > a similar fate by relying on Croquet and the Metaverse for
>     virtual world
>      > dynamics so we can keep TapBot's focus on building a lite story logic
>      > engine.
>      >
>      > We're familiar with the Croquet TVML project and hope to
>     integrate some
>      > or all the work McCahill's group is doing with NPCs. Is anyone
>     familiar
>      > with other efforts to bring interactive story to Croquet or similar
>      > projects?
>      >
>      > We're also leveraging AIML (http://www.alicebot.org/) for natural
>      > language support, is anyone working with Croquet and AIML?
>      >
>      > Thanks,
>      > Justin
>
>