Live chat?

[Hazel]

Is this game going to have a live chat? Cos every game needs a live chat. :3

A proper live chat, ajax or something, not one of those java monstrosities. :<

[larissar]

I've been thinking about this quite a bit actually. I want to implement something similar to the old style of facebook chat. Where there is a bar along the bottom. I just have to decide how to handle this on mobile devices.

[Hazel]

Kinda like the PSU one? I don't know what FB chats look like, I don't have an account.

Ajax chats that have their own page can be accessed on mobile devices, even if it is a little hard to type in them. I dunno about other forms of code.

[larissar]

Something similar to cometchat (www.cometchat.com) however I haven't been able to test their mobile support yet but otherwise I like cometchat.

[Delirium]

That looks more like private messaging to me -- like GChat and Facebook chat, where you're only talking to one person unless you do a group chat. That'd still be pretty dang cool, but I think Hazel was talking about a site-wide chat (like C-Box) where you can say something and everyone online who's looking at the chat box will see it.

[larissar]

CometChat does both private chats and group chats. You can check out the demo on their site.

[Nate]

Since we're all on at about the same time, perhaps we could use an external chat feature for now. It might make talking about stuff easier. Game stuff should still be archived on the forums, of course, but just shooting the breeze, collaborating on what to test...I think a chat would be useful for that. Especially when we start testing shows and things, given that there are only six of us. If shows have the kind of entry requirements and limitations they did in the past, we'll need to collaborate to even test that system.

[larissar]

Agreed. Let me throw something up tonight.

Also, I just noticed your "signature". I like it ha ha.