is a
Free And Open Source Software project offering
Emulation of various gaming network servers. It is published under the
GPL and based upon
Bnetd . PvPGN was a recommended project of the month in the August 2005 issue of
Linux+ magazine .
It currently supports most features of all ). Westwood Online support is still very experimental.
A PvPGN Server can be used:
- When wanting to host a local tournament with local users and ladders.
- When wanting to maintain a local community of friends rather than playing on Battle.net .
- For people who want to play on a LAN but with Battle.net-like statistics. Various Cyber Cafe s use a PvPGN server for this purpose.
- For people who want to play on a server within their country or local area, so as to reduce lag.
PvPGN is written in C, and it currently a highly scalable, mature piece of software, with records broken of over
32,000 real-time connections on the
Ender server. PvPGN is always looking for good C or C++ coders, to get involved take a look at the
PvPGN BerliOS project page .
PvPGN will run on the following platforms:
