Questions tagged [multiplayer]
Played by multiple players, cooperatively or competitively, locally or remotely.
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How to support more than 4 XInput controllers?
I'm making a multiplayer game in GameMaker Studio 2. The game supports upto 12 controllers, where the first four are XInput controllers. The rest would be DirectInput.
If I try playing with 8 Xbox ...
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Where and how should I check for collision in multiplayer game?
I'm making a multiplayer game. For now, I added a script to towers and I have booleans to change using OnTriggerEnter.
When triggered, client sends a message to server and towers health starts to get ...
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Dynamic Game Server Architecture
I'm trying to find a way to design a game server architecture for a real time mobile game. The design should be cost effective but still to some extend scaleable (later on).
Mobile client flow:
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How do I support multiple platform patch cycles in a client/server multiplayer game?
I'm making a game with network multiplayer that will be playable with crossplay from multiple platforms. The game is written in c++ and uses regular TCP sockets for network communication. Currently ...
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What to use instead of UNet? [closed]
If you look at this Link you'll see UNet is deprecated and will be removed in the future.
I'm developing a mobile multiplayer game, i've red official advise about it but they say "You can publish it ...
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Client side prediction in 2D rigid-body physics
I'm currently working on 2D rigid-body physics multiplayer game using Matter.js for physics (both the client and server side) and Phaser3 for rendering. Both the server and the client run the ...
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How to create Simple Click multiplayer test Game with photon
I am trying to create a simple multiplayer test sample with unity and photon but unable to do so. I am watching the tutorial and reading for 2 days. Now I know how to connect the player to a server ...
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Unity Client and Multiplayer Networking/Architecture
My background is in Enterprise and SaaS web infrastructure. Zero information about games and how their networking works. I only know about the world of browsers and RESTful APIs.
I'm planning on ...
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Testing a Client's Camera in a Multiplayer FPS
I'm attempting to do a logic test regarding a client's camera in a multiplayer FPS in Unity and I'm a little uncertain of which way to implement the functionality.
The scenario:
- I have a host and ...
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How can I debug the logic on my game server?
I am developing a 2D side-scrolling multiplayer game using Node.js. I'm having issues debugging certain aspects of the development process (ex: collision detection, player movement, latency, etc.).
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Fast Serialization for Multiplayer Gaming
I wish to make a Java based multiplayer game. I am learning all about sockets and so forth. I have built a very basic UDP system that serializes an object with all the information about the game state ...
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Achieving smooth movement curves & correct collision detection with a google app realtime multiplayer game server
I'm an hobbist game developer. I'm trying to make a clone of a game like this: http://superhex.io/ to experiment with multiplayer online.
First of all I'm not sure if there is a better way to ...
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How to Invite Facebook Users to a Unity Game for Android
I am currently using the following code to let the player invite other players to my multiplayer game:
FB.AppRequest("Test Message", callback: this.HandleResult);
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Unity multiplayer network shooting concept problem
I try to implement multiplayer shooting using raycasts. Usually when the player press the shoot button i cast a ray from the center of the camera in the current direction. But now i am confused how to ...
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Storing entities in a multiplayer socket.io/node.js game
Let's say the server stores each particle as its constituent information (i.e. a JSON of attributes like 'position') and the client stores each particle as a sprite for rendering.
How should the ...
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Smooth network movement lunge (UE4)
I am working on a melee in Unreal Engine 4 that lunges towards an enemy until it reaches it and applies damage.
I have tried various approaches to get the movement looking smooth on the local client.
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How can I implement slow motion for one player in multiplayer?
Special attacks in Mortal Kombat Mobile require slow motion i.e. delay in game play.
On multiplayer mode, when the opponent uses special attacks, I don't observe any lag/delay.
When I use special ...
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Unity5 NetworkServer spawn method works only inside the editor
I have a script that calls the server to spawn an object when the user press a certain key. The script inerhits from NetworkBehaviour and is attached to the players prefab.
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Game Maker picking the wrong network adapter for broadcast
In my game I need to get the local network IP of the computer that is running the game, and for that purpose I have the following code:
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How can I reverse engineer an old MMO?
I want to revive an old MMO.
Only the old client exists from the game, so I would have to write a whole server for it.
I'm not sure how to start editing things in the already made client. Most ...
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Unity FPS - Joining players always take over the camera
I created a "network manager" and a "network manager hud" for the whole scene. My character is a simple capsule and has a camera, a weapon spawner and 3 weapons as children. I gave him a "network ...
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Is Google Play Games Services Multiplayer (Turn based) free? Is there any limitation on number of users?
I was just visiting Google Play Games Services guide for signing In in Unity.
I just came to know there that Google Play Games also provide services for Multiplayer.
I'm currently working on my Indie ...
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How can I handle bouncy collision lag in an online game?
In my online game, each client sends its player's x/y location to the other clients, and the other clients update the location as they receive it, with some interpolation.
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The game has bouncy ...
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How to add local multiplayer feature in a game using bluetooth?
I have developed a turn based game using android studio.I want to add local multiplayer feature to it. Don't need a detailed explanation, I need some idea about the following aspects:-
Do I need a ...
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How can I handle the difficulty level between co-op and single player?
I'm working on an action-adventure game, and I was considering adding a co-op option. What I'm trying to decide is if when another player joins the game, if the game should get harder. On the one hand,...
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Spawned Network Object with rigidbody moves at different velocity/angle/pos on the clients/host - Unity Unet Mirror
I am using Mirror API with Unity 2019 to make a basic multiplayer game. The game is a simple ice hockey style with cylinder shaped players and a cylinder puck. The players are spawned by Network ...
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Project organization for a multiplayer client-server game
I'm programming a game 100% in Java but I'm having some issues concerning the final games architecture.
I plan on having two separate projects: one that will hold the client side of communication ...
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Unity Networked gaming 2019… What happened to NetworkBehaviour, OnServerStart() etc
After a long break, I am now trying to learn some basics in networked gaming in Unity. I've installed the latest beta client (because I want to ultimately make a network multiplayer game but it will ...
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Multiplayer game- Client Shooting backwards
Making a multiplayer game. The Host shoots properly but the other players would only shoot backwards.
Shooting script:
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Only host can spawn object
I am currently making a multiplayer game however only the host has the capability to spawn projectiles.
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When to stop taking items from ever-growing queue and start processing them?
I am developing a fast-paced multiplayer shooting game and following instructions from this source http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/entity-interpolation.html. In the article it says that:
several ...
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Unity only projectiles shot by host visible to all players
I am currently making a fps multiplayer game, i have successfully made it so that multiple players can join and that they can see each other moving around. However there is a problem with the shooting....
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Photon-Unity Instantiation not working
I use Unity and Photon for the multiplayer. I Instantiate my gameObjects using this method :
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writing a game loop for a networked multiplayer game
i am trying to implement a networked multiplaye game. i understand the game loop described here :
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Multiplayer physics out of sync
So I'm working on this multiplayer platformer game using Phaser, Matter.js, and Colyseus.js.
I have a simple map and player controls set up and now I'm trying to copy my physics simulation on the ...
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How can I make a game-wide round timer with socket.io?
I'm making a javascript multiplayer networked game called "Ultimate Tag". It's basically a multiplayer tag with upgrade every time you tag someone. I want to have 5 minute rounds with timers, and a ...
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Client updating prefab on inspector, but spawning the old prefab
I am making an AR (ArCore Cloud anchor) multiplayer(UNet) game with unity. In the game, a player can select an object with ui buttons and touch on screen to place the object. This is how I have set up ...
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Custom server UE4 [on hold]
I am trying to create a custom server for my UE4 game for fun. I know that UE has built-in support for online multiplayer, but I still want to try and create my own networking solution.
Is there a ...
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Too many objects to update in db too often
We are creating a RTS mobile game and we face some problem dealing with updating a lot of object in db too often.
Our game is a RTS in which players can attack enemies cities an take them.
The world ...
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How to make fighting roster fair
I plan on creating a fighting game in the future, and I'm wondering how to make a roster functionally fair, and feel fair. You see, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate is functionally fair (I think), but at ...
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How would I create a multiplayer game owning a server?
I'm using gamemaker studio 2 to create an RPG, at the moment it's only single player but I would ideally like to make it multiplayer if possible.
I've done a bit of research but all the information ...
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How to make an authoritative multiplayer game deterministic for all clients? [closed]
I'm starting to create a multiplayer online game, with an authoritative server. As it is, the clients send inputs to the server which do the simulation and then send back to clients the updated state. ...
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Unity - Bullet spawns in wrong position in client
I am making a multiplayer game with prefab shooting, but unfortunately the prefab sometimes spawns in the wrong position when I shoot from a client. The bullet ...
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Check if client is alive
I am having client/server application and i want to detect if client is alive.
So i know that send() will return me null but it ...
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Server-side real time position calculation based on destination position - C#
What I want to achieve is to calculate the real object position based on its speed and a destination position.
In my server, I have a MapInstance that have a list ...
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How can I add intermittent voice chat to a Unity multiplayer game?
I'm looking to make a multiplayer horror game with one of the main mechanics being the game's internal voice chat.
Currently I plan on making it cut in and out so that the players (being on opposite ...
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How do i prevent IAP abuse using restoring purchases in an online game?
Lets say i have a mobile mmorpg (ios/android) where you can purchase premium currency using IAP's... how do i actually prevent the following case :
Player purchases premium currency
Server side ...
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Multiplayer Client Side Prediction and Extra/InterPolation
I'm developing a game like Slither.io but I have planned to add weapons and another additional stuff, I implemented the Gabriel Gambetta example which runs perfectly only if the character is updated (...
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How to propertly send map to clients in MMO?
I'm designing a game where the map has 1 M tiles. The game is simple, is a 2D game with low graphic requirements and without player movements, only change states, so I don't need to update player ...
