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In general terms, how does a peer-to-peer game model work? [closed]
after some time of playing with Cirrus (a P2P model communication between users) I could made a simple game.
However, the game is turn based, so, it works like this:
Player A sends a message
Player ...
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Syncing entities in a totally shared multiplayer environment
Typically, networked games designate a server (or host player) as being authoritative over all state shared between the players. Clients still simulate their own state, but also continuously ...
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Peer-to-peer hostless competitive games of chance?
I'm wondering - have any games been ever created that are:
peer-to-peer without one peer being designated as host
competitive (not cooperative, players play against one another)
provably fair (there ...
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Best peer-to-peer game architecture
Consider a setup where game clients:
have quite small computing resources (mobile devices, smartphones)
are all connected to a common router (LAN, hotspot etc)
The users want to play a multiplayer ...
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Can adversarial agents flip coins?
I was thinking about peer-to-peer games by considering a simple coin tossing game.
You open up your version of P2PCoinFlipping Beta 2.3 and it displays a
list of player name servers. After ...
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Peer-to-peer first person shooter
I've been developing a first person shooter/massive multiplayer online roleplaying game for my small business, and was wondering if it would be feasible to use peer-to-peer technology to communicate ...
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Are RTMFP Flash games the new big thing? [closed]
After watching (and playing) HaxBall, I can imagine that RTMFP (or any other real time multiplayer flash based technology) games will be the new big thing, replacing social games (cafeworld, etc).
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How can I make a peer-to-peer multiplayer game?
How can I make a p2p multiplayer game?
I would like to have a server-less multiplayer game. But then, how all the clients know each other?
Why the p2p-protocol is so famous in file transfer but not ...
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Game networking topology - dealing with host leaving
I am working on a P2P game in Flash and I'm wondering what network topology would be most robust for dealing with people randomly joining/leaving. I was thinking the first user to join could be the ...
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Network layer libraries [closed]
I'm looking for any network layers that are available to add to my game, either free or with fair pricing for indie games.
By network layers I mean some sort of library which I can interface with, ...
