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It's Black Moon Chronicles Online: Winds of War. I have client sources as I am working with the person that owns the rights. Protocol is not documented, so re

It's Black Moon Chronicles Online: Winds of War. I have client sources as I am working with the person that owns the rights. Protocol is not documented, so reverse engineering, but having the clientside helps. The server software was lost to time and accidents. But we have dumps of quest data, times, mobs, etc and all assets in original form. So as soon as I get the server in a working state. We have the full game. We plan to open source/creative commons everything when we get something playable. I've done 4 massive redactors as the code grows, to accommodate changes in understanding and design flaws.

mrklol 3y ago
What about this project here? https://github.com/jeanbmar/black-moon-rewind https://github.com/jeanbmar/black-moon-rewind Is this far behind?
- Daegalus 3y ago
  We are aware of their work. We've been working on ours off and on for many more years than this attempt. We have just been slowed down by real life stuff and I'm solo working on the backend. So if I get busy, not much work happens. We had reached out to him when we discovered his work back then. But he refused to join our effort unless we 100% open source everything then and there. Due to legal reasons at the time (related to the T4C owners and T4C using similar code to BMC), we had to stay closed source. He still refused to work with us even with a promise that we plan to open source eventually. We shared with him all the packet data models and such but he was kind of unresponsive after our initial conversations. He is also working 100% blackbox while we have sources for the client and assets/server data. Hopefully all that makes sense. I haven't really paid attention to his project since then and it seems he stopped all work efforts on it 2 years ago. But to answer your question, it's quite a bit far behind what we have. But there is so much work that goes into an MMO. We have solved the network stuff, we are just working now on world state as we have the ability for multiple people to log in and do stuff with dummy data. I have been writing tools and importers for the server data. Like zone files, creature, NPC, item, etc data. All the monster spawners are in the zone files for example and then needs to be cross-referenced with other data, and then assets to actually draw spawn mobs.

mrklol 3y ago

What about this project here? https://github.com/jeanbmar/black-moon-rewind https://github.com/jeanbmar/black-moon-rewind Is this far behind?

Daegalus 3y ago
We are aware of their work. We've been working on ours off and on for many more years than this attempt. We have just been slowed down by real life stuff and I'm solo working on the backend. So if I get busy, not much work happens. We had reached out to him when we discovered his work back then. But he refused to join our effort unless we 100% open source everything then and there. Due to legal reasons at the time (related to the T4C owners and T4C using similar code to BMC), we had to stay closed source. He still refused to work with us even with a promise that we plan to open source eventually. We shared with him all the packet data models and such but he was kind of unresponsive after our initial conversations. He is also working 100% blackbox while we have sources for the client and assets/server data. Hopefully all that makes sense. I haven't really paid attention to his project since then and it seems he stopped all work efforts on it 2 years ago. But to answer your question, it's quite a bit far behind what we have. But there is so much work that goes into an MMO. We have solved the network stuff, we are just working now on world state as we have the ability for multiple people to log in and do stuff with dummy data. I have been writing tools and importers for the server data. Like zone files, creature, NPC, item, etc data. All the monster spawners are in the zone files for example and then needs to be cross-referenced with other data, and then assets to actually draw spawn mobs.