Lobby Development

Development < Lobby Development

Live systems

Protocol

• Spring Lobby Protocol Description
• changelog
• Index of commands

These are both updated once per day from the raw xml docs

Uberserver

cross-platform, Python, by aegis, abma, silentwings

• The primary lobby server currently running on springrts.com. See the dedicated page on uberserver for more info.

Download_Systems

Various systems exist to supply content, see the dedicated page Download_Systems.

SpringLobby

Linux, Windows, Mac , C++, by Koshi, Braindamage, Abma and many others

github: repository + issues

Chobby

Windows, Lua, by gajop, with major contributions from various game devs

github: repository + issues

Zero-K systems

ZeroK Server

cross-platform, C#, by Licho

Zero-K lobby server. Uses a different protocol. Source can be found at https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K-Infrastructure/tree/master/ZkLobbyServer

Zero-K Lobby

No longer uses the Spring lobby protocol

Windows/Linux, C#, by Licho & quantum

Zero-K Lobby github

Legacy systems

Legacy lobby clients

From mostly functional, to WIP, abandoned or unusable. Apparently, its much harder to make a lobby client than most people think.

flobby

Linux, C++, by cleanrock, only maintained actively for use with the Zero-K lobbyserver.

github page

Weblobby

cross-platform, C++, unmaintained (superceeded by Chobby)

project site

TASClient

Windows, Delphi, by Satirik, unmaintained

Alphalobby

Windows, C, unmaintained

Alphalobby is still very much work in progress. If you still wish to use it, source available from the mercurial repository, binary available on the springfiles page.

CheeseLobby

cross-platform, Java, by Cheesecan, unmaintained

forum thread

binaries and code

QtLobby

cross-platform, C++, unmaintained

project page

Spring-PythonBotFramework

cross-platform, Python, by BrainDamage & koshi, unmaintained

A bot framework written in python. GitHub wiki

Go SpringLobbyClient

cross-platform, Go unmaintained

A simple client implementation of the lobby protocol in Go. project page

Legacy lobbyservers

SpringLS

cross-platform, Java, hoijui

Legacy lobby server, created by Betalord. Superceeded by uberserver in 2012. You can fetch the sources through git. Details can be found on the development site.