Multiplayer Game

Can you make an example without any templates?

Just some basic car race game using ent_move or something?

You already made a car race game in an AUM, so just make it LAN capable...

I can't make a shooter.
There's too many of them on the market already. lol

I won't use the templates in my workshops. I'll start from scratch and move on until we've got something playable in our hands. I didn't decide on the type of multiplayer game yet.

Maybe you could make a Voting so that the community can decide what they want?

Dark_samurai

No, I wouldn't risk that. I bet that 99% of the voters would ask for a mmorpg

But if you can't vote for a MMORPG.... ?!

Hi George

I thought i lost all my files about my Ludo 3D game that i started once , now i am workin on it again for the Contest .
The point is ... what about converting it to a Multiplayer Game with 4 Players .
I would sent you all needed files .

Well, it would be so much easier for me to create a game from scratch. My plan is to write the shortest script that creates a fully playable multiplayer game.

your right its easier from scratch , but what i mean is games like ludo or other simular games as a Multiplayer Game . That would be interesting i think and its something different as a Shooter.

Ok, send me the project and I'll take a look at it.

Please do a multiplayer shooter (hopefully with some tutorials showing how to implement it in a game). It could make possibly all the difference in my project. I'm coding AI right now, but I really want to put multiplayer in my game.

Has this been completed yet ?

i also want this Tutorial :-)

As Ran Man said, it would be handy to have a tutorial that doesn't use the template scripts. Been me I pefer making scripts from scratch

I have to cover a few more things first, but a series of multiplayer workshops is planned and will make it into the following magazines. The code will be written from scratch, as always.

George: The Pong demo is 'easy' to make a multiplayer game from. The hard part is writing everthing down. I mean the things we need to learn in order to make these kind of games. You can do a shooter too, but I think most first need the basics.

Sure, that's why I plan to write a series of workshops. I think that we can get something that works with very little coding; the last multiplayer workshop will probably be a shooter.

@ all who will take a multiplayer game i work on a multiplayer game im the level designer and the game running perfect in multiplayer. We have a very good multiplayer Script write but only run in the one game because have special technique. More infos under TSGames

Me project will be offically done in 2 months.

Please hurry. lol

The Minigolf Projekt is next Mounts ready and we have han only work 2 Mounths

Thanks a lot George, I was thinking maybe you'd forgotten about multiplayer. I have one question; will this be good enough for online play, or only good enough for lan. That is with about 8-16 players. Thanks.

I'm interested in finding that out myself . Even my previous (and poorly) programed multiplayer code works great over the lan, so I'll do my best and optimize the code as much as possible, trying to make it run over the net as well.

Goerge, I would really like to see a fast point-and-click targeting system if you ever get the chance.
Most of the stuff I've seen in the mags revolves around fireing in the direction of a target, I guess hoping it hits.
But what about for an RPG that uses buttons to cast spells or abilities, that need a target to become active?
I guess if you could show us RPG makers a code that revolves around having to select a target to cast a spell, or use an ability, that would be great!

Oh, some conditions would be that the spell always follows the target, if it was cast, like a firebolt or something. Also, that if the target is out of range you can't cast it.

Hope it's not to much trouble

The target idea is quite simple: mouse_ent is the pointer to the entity that has the mouse pointer placed over it. You can then get the entity name / pointer, store it and do whatever you want with it.
Here's another idea: use enable_touch for any entity that will be sensitive to mouse touching and / or clicking.

@George

If you like you can contact me for the MP shooter.
I gained a lot of expierience by making my western shooter, smoothing with my mmorpg-server project (which runs smooth with 4 updates/ sec and still could be reduced).
And finally the starbattle where I learned that there is not that much communication necessary than expected.


@oldschoolj
Look for my game "Starbattle" (topic New multiplayer game "MORPG battle"), the script file is included and everything's well commented and in english.

Thank you for the generous offer. I'll probably ask you to review my code and suggest improvements.

I'm still at A6.31.4, but I know C/ C++ well.

Newertheless was my intention more about the theory where what should be calculated.

Thank you, that would be even more helpful. Prepare for a long series of questions (just kidding... or maybe not)