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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UDK - Where might one look to begin developing a standalone multiplayer system?
To be brief, I'd like to create and integrate my own network handling system that would support 500+ players into a UDK project. Best I have understood various guides and online references, the most ...
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1answer
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GameLoop architecture for local multiplayer
I'm writing a game for Android to which I want to add a mulitplayer mode (local multiplayer via WiFi/Bluetooth, not online multiplayer via server). I stored the exchange-code between the client ...
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Game mechanic for a battle between 2 monsters
I'm building a flash game where you have a collection of creatures. It's basically a petting game at the moment, I'd like to know what kind of mechanics I could use to battle them efficiently. I'd ...
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Getting error messages from my server
I'm working on client-server-client game. Client is sending their status (position) 30 times a second. I'm using Lidgren.Network namespace for networking (server, client).
I've got two questions:
1. ...
2
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0answers
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1UPT multiplayer sync
The game I'm working on is 1 unit per tile. Each player can move their single unit 1 tile at a time (click the unit and then click the tile to move to).
It's in Javascript with Node.js and presently ...
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0answers
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DRY 0-bandwidth-overhead-serialization in C#: virtual, delegates or reflection?
I'm (de)serializing some datastructures for a network-multiplayer game, and for each datastructure that's to be (de)serialized, I want to define the order of (de)serialization only once for ...
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0answers
161 views
Browser UDP Relay with TCP Websocket
I'm wondering if this is possible and what obstacles I might face.
I have a game that's browser based, and since I can't send UDP packets from a browser, Can I use a plugin that the browser connects ...
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0answers
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Multiplayer approach for tablets on wi-fi (FPS/TPS)? Server authority, etc
Looking for some guidance or what has worked well for others in implementing a multiplayer FPS/TPS type game on tablets (probably just 2-6 players at a time).
The main issue being that ...
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0answers
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How do I add multi-player to a Windows mobile game?
I have an XNA game on WP7.5 and I like to add a multi-player mode, but I really don't know what to do. At first, I tried it with WCF, but that was really slow for the game. Are there any other ...
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0answers
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Most effective way to build a lobby application for a game?
I'm trying to steer clear from "which technology should I use" and more of "what aspects of tool s should I look for to make this easy". What is the rest of the industry doing? Web stacks? I'm trying ...
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0answers
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What is an efficient/safe way to broker head to head communication for a mobile game
I have a mobile game written in XNA/MonoGame with a wcf server and I am currently designing the head to head competition mode. Previously I have created a game that used UDP to set up communication ...
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0answers
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Socket.io v.9 with Actionscript
I'm attempting to develop an online multiplayer game using Node.js for the server and Flash to display the client.
I've been reading up a bit and have found quite a few recommendations for the ...
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0answers
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How to manage own bots at the server?
There is a game server and people can play in game rooms of 2, 3 or 4. When a client connects to server he can send a request specifying a number of people or range he wants to play with.
One of this ...
0
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0answers
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Worker roles in Windows Azure to host a multiplayer server
I've been doing research on where to host a simple multi-player backend for a simple game I'm developing. So as a first choice I downloaded the Windows Azure SDK, which provides a nice and simple ...
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0answers
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Multiple Audio listeners in Scene
THIS IS UNITY
Im trying to make a FPS game over networking, it works fine.
But now, when im trying to implement sound, it won't work.
My guess would be, to add a Audio listener to the prefab, that ...
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0answers
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Prediction happening on (sending) client side
This seems like a simple enough concept, but I haven't seen this implemented anywhere yet.
Assuming that the server just forwards and verifies data...
I'm using mouse-based movement, so it's not too ...
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0answers
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What is the best polling method for a real time game in Android?
I'm creating a multiplayer Android game and have been using http posting to a PHP server to get my info. This is obviously very slow and I was hoping to speed it up. What is the best polling method ...
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Android - Multiplayer Game - Client / Server - Java etc
I must write a multiplayer pong game for the school. Where are thousand of rooms and where two players can go in to a room and play together and collect points. I programmed the Pong game using Java ...
