By chimera00 on

Anyone know the best way to create a "lobby" or "lounge" for users of a multi-player gaming site to hook up for matches against each other? I'd like two ways for this to happen: instantly among the users currently online, as well as for setting up a match at some negotiated time in the future via private messages from either a "buddy list" they can add other users to over time or else randomly via the server arranging a match between users unknown to each other?

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skessler
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At this time I don't think there are Drupal modules to do this project. I am sure the community would welcome the development of a live chat service for Drupal.

Thanks,
Steve

Steve Kessler
Denver DataMan -www.denverdataman.com

Steve Kessler

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chimera00 commented

Thanks Steve, I've not been able to find any existing solutions either just using search engine here and on Google. Of course, I'm a complete newbie to Drupal and am not yet familiar with all that's available out there and was hoping someone might be aware of something.

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skessler
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Drupal is a modular system with many areas of expanssion. I just dont know of any modules (and I looked) that add chat. You can do profiles, builitan boards, and all of that but not live chat with what exists.

You might want to look at http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg and http://drupal.org/project/pm_lite

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Steve

Steve Kessler skessler[at]denverdataman.com
Denver DataMan - http://www.denverdataman.com

Steve Kessler

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chimera00 commented

Thanks for the info Steve, there's also a "buddylist" Drupal module available that I'm taking a look at for private messaging to a friends list.

I wonder if there's some sort of approach that could setup a portion of the screen as a custom block or panel similar to an iFrame to load in a 3rd party chat system? Again, I've not yet actually used Drupal since I'm still in the research phase and apologize if this is a dumb question.

There's a lot of info here on the Drupal site in reference form and as forum posts, but it takes a bit of digging around to learn how to fit it all together into a good site. USPS just delivered a couple of Drupal 6 books to my door, so I'm diving into those now!

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dtabach commented

There are a few chat modules you can investigate:

http://drupal.org/project/chatblock

http://drupal.org/project/chatroom

http://drupal.org/project/shoutbox

http://drupal.org/project/ajaxim

Durval Tabach

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chimera00 commented

Thanks dtabach for the chat modules list. I tried the chatroom module's demo site, and that's what I had in mind for a chat lobby capability for folks to hook up on games. I'll give that one a go and see how folks like it.