Adapting FAF to other games?

[AdmiralZeech]

Hi, just a question. How possible is it to adapt FAF to work generically with other games?

ie. make FAF into an open source middleware for multiplayer infrastructure?

Alternatively, has anyone heard of any open source software libraries that provides similar functions of Lobbies / Ladder / Matchmaking / Chatroom / Replay browser?

[Brutus5000]

Yes it is possible in theory, but it is not something I would recommend.

Most parts of the codebase are bound to the Forged Alliance server protocol.
And we have a lot of compatibilty code that would not be required if you start a new lobby from scratch.
Some parts of our architecture are also something we would rather change (i.e. chat hosting using an irc server compound).

As far as I know there are no open source solutions covering our use case. This is probably due to the fact that there aren't many reeingineered game protocols that haven't been shutdown by lawsuits.

Many of our concepts could be copied though. Are you asking for a specific game?

[AdmiralZeech]

Thanks for the reply. I'm more asking of whether it can be used for new (indie) games, not re-fitting onto existing games that have ended support.

[Brutus5000]

Parts of it could be used. For a proper evaluation we would need more details.