id Software’s Quake Live service and XMPP

Posted by Mickaël Rémond on January 10, 2009

It seems that id Software Quake Live gaming platform has deployed some sort of XMPP service.

The gaming platform has deployed an XMPP server on quakelive.com: See IMTrends report.

It still unclear what the service will be used as I do not have access to the beta yet, but I can bet that it will be a community chat platform, probably with in game chat features.

It seems that gaming industry is more and more relying on XMPP protocol to build its gaming chat community features. This is more good news for the protocol adoption.

Update: Here is a link to a spanish article showing several screenshots: Quake Live chat screenshots.



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anonymous avatar

I am part of the beta, they are indeed using it for chat and presence. The whole thing consists of two parts, the game and the website. The website is used to find games, manage/chat to friends, view statistics. You can also chat from within the game to your friends who might be on the site or in another game.

They’re using XMPP for more than chat though, I think they’re using it also as a generic messaging layer for managing their game servers, and also gathering statistics.

After a bit of digging, I found out that they’re building it on top of this platform: http://www.gaimtheory.com/

Posted by wc on 14 Jan 2009 at 04:40



 
Mickaël Rémond's avatar

Thank you for the extra information !

Posted by Mickaël Rémond on 15 Jan 2009 at 22:34



 


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