Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
The Broth: Ajax shared mosaic
Category: Showcase
The Broth is a “Global Mosaic”, a massively multiplayer Web 2.0 application based on Ajax, Php and Mysql.
The Global Mosaic is made of 1,000 colorful tiles that are shared by everyone. When someone moves a tile, others can instantly see it move on their screens.
The team has a developer blog in which they discuss their use of Ajax and the other technologies.
3.9 rating from 54 votes
Very cool experiment! Sort of reminds me of the someone keeps stealing my letters Flash fridge magnet game from a few years ago.
For some reason the page kept refreshing in IE, but it worked in Firefox.
I think the coolest part though is that the developers discuss their approach to building and making this thing work. (Looks like they’re polling every second with a simple, non-XML format, for anyone interested.) Bonus geek/karma points in my book!
Also like Ajax Magnetic Poetry
http://www.broken-notebook.com/magnetic/
It used to be real-time like this, but I recall somewhere Aaron pulled the plug on the 1-sec refresh due to bandwidth, not sure what the status is now.
Site’s down… mySQL db error. Overloaded from this post?
from japan
In the past few days I put up a clone of the cool flash game.I’m going to add a reputation feature, where you can see a symbol representing who moves the letter in question.
Check out this picture
If you see anything that might be a bug, please send me a message. :)
I am using the slow load technique, and javascript posts back the changed data. A PHP runs for each user, doing lots of communication with a MEMORY based MySQL server. I’m running this on my home PC at the moment, using my Dreamhost hosting for the domain, but I’ll need to switch over soon. Hopefully the dreamhost guys can allow me to use a local MySql server, so I don’t have to send messages across their internal network to a seperate SQL server.
It seems this site has given up Ajax and gone to a Flash-based system.