A game which is played by several players. The players may be working cooperatively or competitively (either against each other or the game).
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Prevent Multiplayer Cheating
I am almost complete developing a small indie-style multiplayer game. While I intend to allow people to cheat in single-player, this is obviously not acceptable in multi-player. Does anyone know of ...
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What should I keep in mind when developing a game to be multiplayer?
I am making 2d game, and it will be a game where players can move on in a 2D world and there will be physics with projectiles and such.
So far, I don't have much, just a tile engine a few other ...
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Developing an ELO like point system for a multiplayer gaming site
I'm currently working on a gaming site where users will submit virtual players for different games, like Chess, Nash, Backgammon, Go, etc. The idea is that users don't compete themselves, but through ...
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What platform should I use for a master server?
We are making a small FPS, and want people to be able to play it online and fetch a list of all servers from a master server. We only have experience in C#, and we have already written a master server ...
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How to synchronize clocks in multiplayer game?
I have 2 to 3 clients, that can exchange messages through Apple Game Center.
The only synchronization I need is: start the game at the same moment.
I guess this involves clock synchronization. How ...
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Real-time multiplayer game server development [closed]
I'm an Android developer, and I want to start developing a real-time multiplayer game, like Pocket Legends.
Would this type of server be good for a real-time multiplayer action game - ...
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Suitable Client Server setup for Network Game testing
I want to test my Client/Server game for which, currently, I am using localhost for both Client and Server.
Obviously I'm not getting any fluctuation in data and measure idea of performance, and in ...
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How can multiple clients be out of sync if they use the same RNG seed?
I have been working on a client-server architecture to enable LAN play for my open source game, Aigilas. In its current state, players stay synced in all running instances of the game but enemies and ...
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Will making players pay a virtual currency before entering a match discourage them from playing?
I'm making a multiplayer match-making game, and by my current design, people will need to pay a small fee before joining a match. At the end of the match, the team that won will get the money. That ...
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Client side prediction/simulation Question
I found a related question but it doesn't have what I needed.
Client A sends input to move at T0.
Server receives input at T1.
All clients receive the change at T2.
Question:
With client-side ...
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Elegant way to handle packet loss in a lockstep P2P RTS?
What's an elegant way to handle packet loss in a lockstep simulation peer-to-peer RTS where only player input data is sent over the network?
For example, let's say it's tick 1000 and player 1 sends a ...
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What Java library provides a high-level communication interface suitable for use in an action-game server?
I need to write a server for an action game, which needs fast communication with the client. There will only be one server, and I'll split the world in zones. The client will be written in Java using ...
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Required Security Precautions for Flash / AS3 Multiplayer Game
I have created a couple of games in Flash/AS3 and am playing with programming a flash-based multiplayer (possibly mmo?) game where the application will communicate with a server over a socket ...
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What advantages are there to the one-port-per-client approach for a multiplayer server?
There are a few older games (Quake III and Hexen II to name a couple) where the server assigns a port per player.
Are there performance advantages to this? I suspect there may be, since Carmack & ...
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1answer
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Rate-limiting players actions in a multiplayer game
I'm thinking about building a multiplayer game with combat between players and monsters. Actors need to have a maximum actions per minute, otherwise users could cheat by holding down the attack key. ...
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What is dead reckoning and how do you deal with it?
I've come across this problem before and it would be good to know the different ways of solving this problem.
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1answer
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How to setup a client to work with a remote server or a local included server?
I'm working on a Networked multiplayer game, but while developing and for testing I want to set up a local server that acts like the multiplayer server.
My thought is to approach the server as a ...
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Get timing correct with client side prediction
I believe I've got my head round CSP after reading Gabriel Gambetta's blog, Valve article and buildnewgames.com but having an issue understanding the time execution of everything.
So if a player ...
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1answer
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Player ranking using ELO with more than two players
I would like to use ELO to track player rankings between matches of a certain game, however the game can be played with up to four players in a match. I have seen games like Carcassonne use ELO with ...
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Implementing a multilanguage AI contest platform
This is a followup to this question. To sum: I'm implementing an AI contest site, where each user may submit several AI implementations for different games. Think about Google AI Challenge
but instead ...
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Red5 or zendZMF or BlazeDS or Cirrus?
I've been trying to develop a multiplayer turn based game which is mostly free to play - I just want to see if the game idea is appreciated - hence I want to do it with minimal cost and I'm confused ...
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How to make a chat lobby in my game?
I'm writing my own RTS game in Delphi. Single-player part is almost done and works well and I'm thinking about adding multi-player to it now. There's going to be a lobby where players should be able ...
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client/server Silverlight turn based game - domain model question
I am making multiplayer (2 players) Minesweeper like the one that's available on MS Live Messenger.
Client side is going to be silverlight, server side will be MVC Application. Client (the one who is ...
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Architecture of an action multiplayer game from scratch
Not sure whether it's a good place to ask (do point me to a better one if it's not), but since what we're developing is a game - here it goes.
So this is a "real-time" action multiplayer game. I have ...
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1answer
355 views
Network Game testing via Wireshark
How can i check/inspect the performance of my network game via Wireshark and specifically the Graphs available in Wireshark,i want to test the performance of my network game. which kind of graphs can ...
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Validating multiplayer actions when using Javascript Game Engines client-side
I am using one of the many javascript game engine (impactjs, craftyjs, melonjs, easeljs etc) out there to handle the animation client-side. And I have a way of calling server-side functions and ...
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Determinism in multiplayer simulation with Box2D, and single computer
I wrote a small test car driving multiplayer game with Box2D using TCP server-client communcations.
I ran 1 instance of server.exe and 2 instance of client.exe on the same machine that I code and ...
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4answers
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Alternatives to a leveling system
I'm currently designing a rough prototype of a mecha fighting game.
These are the basics I came up with:
Multiplayer (matchmaking for up to 10 people, for now)
Browser based (HTML5)
2D ...
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2answers
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FPS networking with server sending input instead of gamestate
Why do all fps games have the server send gamestate instead of input which is smaller?
One reason I can sort of see is that if the server sends input to the clients and a packet gets dropped then the ...
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2answers
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What sort of data should be sent for mouse-based movement in a multiplayer game?
I'm new to the Multiplayer Rodeo here so please bear with me...
I am just getting started and I'm trying to figure out how to deal with movement.
I've looked at the question Best way to implement ...
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1answer
292 views
How to structure (the code in) a multiplayer game
I'm working on a rather small project where we will be developing a small engine, a client, a server and an editor of some kind. It's a component-based 3D engine with basic systems like Rendering, ...
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1answer
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How should bots be recognised in a game?
I'm interested in how bots are usually written.
Here's my situation:
I plan to make an online 2D mecha game in HTML5, and the server-side will be done with node. It is intended to be multiplayer, ...
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Creating a top-view racing game, do I have the right ideas, any suggestions?
I am creating a top-view, multiplayer, arcade-ish racing game, and I want to know if you guys think that I am on the right track, or not. It will work basically like this:
-There are 3 races, and one ...
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1answer
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Scripting for a C#, multiplayer game
I have a multiplayer game written in C# and we've recently been creating a lot of content but have been looking for a way to give our entities customization logic that the designers can hook into. I ...
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1answer
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Better ways of handling the server for a Multiplayer Browser Based Game [closed]
I am looking to create a multiplayer browser based game, similar to tribal wars and such, and i'm trying to think of better ways of handling the server, for example when troops and buildings are ...
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1answer
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Multiplayer XNA without a LIVE account? (PC)
I decided it was time to stick in a bit of multiplayer into my game, but came across my first hurdle when i quickly downloaded an example from the XNA website.
It prompted me with a login to live. ...
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1answer
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Does concurrency inherently introduce “randomness” into a game?
When a game is implemented with concurrency (as most games are), does this necessarily, by its very nature, introduce an element of randomness into the game that is outside of the players' control?
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Which platform and what strategies can I use
There's this game, that I've been wanting to make for quite some time. It's a project that I've started and had to abandon in the middle a couple of times. However, this time I'm determined to finish ...
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2answers
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How to achieve smooth gameplay in a physics based multiplayer game? (2d)
I'm using cocos2d 2.0 and Gamekit for networking. I've got a server/client model. It works over wifi (local) and bluetooth. (Xcode 4.3, Objective C)
Basically, there's a ball and 2 or more players. ...
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1answer
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Client Server UDP Jumping
I don't really think this is an issue with the fact that UDP can drop packets (I'm using Lidgren and using ReliableInOrder), but basically, in my game, the client send the input keys (if forward is ...
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1answer
535 views
Real-time UDP multiplayer games: ping measurement?
In real-time multiplayer games that use UDP for the actual game (CS:S, UT, etc.), how is network latency (ping) measured? More specifically, how do you find out how long ago a UDP packet was sent?
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2answers
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How often to SendData() in my peer-ro-peer XNA game?
Currently I call
myLocalNetworkGamer.SendData(myPacketWriter, ...)
every Update(). 60 times a second sounds too much. Is there an inbuilt way to only send less often? How often should network ...
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1answer
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What is wrong with my technique for transmitting server and client game state?
I'm doing a network implementation of a fast-paced game. I have a puck on bot the server and client side of the simulation. I want to update the client puck position only if they are on the same ...
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1answer
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How do I manage multiplayer login?
How is the typical login, loading the level and spawning handled?
For example:
Client sends "iwanttologinwithcharacterx"
Server does some validity checks and instantiates characterx
Server sends ...
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2answers
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Sync clocks on a real time multiplayer game - Is this ok?
I'm developing a multiplayer game through Gamecenter in unity with prime31 plugin. This is how I sync the clocks of the two players (right now there will only be 2 player in one match), and I wanted ...
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3answers
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What's an efficient way to represent game state for networked games?
I've done a little bit of network coding for games before, but primarily with TCP for games that don't really need to simulate real-time interaction. I am working on a (somewhat) simple 2D Java game ...
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1answer
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Server related questions and it is available options?
i went thru a lot pages here searching for information about the "server side" of a multiplayer game, while i did found some information they were not exactly what i was looking for.
What is the ...
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1answer
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Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) for turn-based mobile multiplayer server?
I'm designing a multiplayer turn-based game for Android (over 3g). I'm thinking the clients will send data to a central server over a socket or http, and receive data via GCM push messaging.
I'd like ...
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2answers
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Game Database Connectivity Java
I'm developing a simple multi-player puzzle game in Java. Both players should be able to view the same game board on his own computer. Then, when one player makes an action in the game (ex. drags an ...
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How to build a turn-based multiplayer “real time” server
I want to build a TCG for mobile devices that is multiplayer over the web (not local wifi or bluetooth). As a player plays cards I want the second player to see what is being played in "real time" ...
