Here's the contest link: Cool Apps Challenge
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Welcome to the CoolApps Developer Challenge
I had a short glance at the contest description only, but from this I assume by 'grid' they mean a server farm, don't they? So what part of jME or MonkeyWorld3D makes sense on a distributed server?
Well, terrrain is a grid so I thought it'd be a good fit. Naw, I think it's good if…
- ...you're local resources are limited and your design calls for huge levels that need to be crunched for BSP/Octree. Especially since BSP performance depends upon finding the best choice for the first plane. It could analize the 'what if' planes to find the best choice faster than a PC.
- ...you want to push something designed to DarkStar (though admittedly I don't see the connection between the two).
- ...organization of large object computations in general. Spatial sorting, light map generation, shadow maps, etc.
Like I said...just a thought.
allways wanted to build a distributed chess engine…where is all my spare time??
Battle chess even. Or how about a distributed remake of Archon?
ahhh archon…loved that one! (would be great as a hobby jme project not related to distributed things too)
heh, how about challenge #2 is "make the best looking remake of Archon using jME" 
perfect!
you'd have to provide a copy of archon to have a reference. while i can remember it, i can't remember everything.
afaik archon is still copyrighted, so making an archon clone as a contest could be difficult without a reference.
excellent links!