Re: Is RPG dying

From: Chamara Withanachchi
 some developers they say RPG is dying ...

Some evidence suggest that more people are doing more things with RPG than at any time in its history. I should admit that I don't have the broadest perspective, but one key to keeping RPG alive may be to keep doing new and innovative things with it, and sharing examples of our work.

One idea that I've been interested in is that of message multi-casting, where messages are delivered to multiple listeners simultaneously so that everyone is on the same page at the same time, so to speak. This kind of interface could be useful for virtual meetings. Chat messages come to mind, but the idea could be expanded to lots of other kinds of messages, such as instructions for browsers to draw on virtual whiteboards, or advance to a slide in a slide show; polls, tests, push audio & video content to browsers, and other interactive stuff.

http://www.radile.com/rdweb/temp/meet.html ;


Another idea I'm interested in is that of managed file transfers via HTTP, FTP, SMTP, and Web service interfaces:

http://www.radile.com/rdweb/temp/sifdocs.html


These are largely concept applications. I still need to fill in a lot of blanks. But they show a possible expanding role for RPG.

-Nathan.