[Twisted-Python] announcing another twisted project
Douglas Bagnall
douglas at paradise.net.nz
Thu Jan 15 04:36:33 MST 2004
hi all,
For a few months I've been working on software for some people who do
"cyberformance", which boils down to being theatre in chat rooms. They
want to be able to do everything they can in their vintage Mac apps, but
be accessable to a general audience. So I've almost written a graphical
chat thingy using SWF for the front end and twisted for the server. I
wasn't quite ready to announce it, but the Daily Python Url has gone and
exposed it anyway.
The theatrical paradigm makes it very slightly different from most chat
programs - for example, you don't need to log in to watch, but as
audience you won't appear on stage; the "avatars" are more like puppets
- players can exchange them during the performance without the audience
knowing. There are also a few unusual features, like text-to-speech
processing (using Festival), and seconds-per-frame live video, to suit
the particular performance style of the artists. But really it's just a
chat program. And it's GPL'd, so if anyone wants a chat program, it
wouldn't be too hard to configure the strange elements away (and I'd
really appreciate anyone using it).
The flash part is generated entirely from actionscript, using the Ming
compiler (http://ming.sf.net/), which I found to be easier than working
in Macromedia Flash, not to mention altogether freer. You still need
the flash plugin to view it though.
Some things about it are a bit broken, and the tests are woefully out of
date. But there you go.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/upstage/ and http://upstage.org.nz/
cheers,
douglas
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