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Yian
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Posted: 16th Aug 2003 23:16
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Is there anyone here in these forums who has actually made a multiplayer game in DBPro?It certainly looks like the answer is a big "NO.". The only person I saw who knew how to make a very basic multiplayer was Asheron over at RGT forums....
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Yian
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Posted: 16th Aug 2003 23:28
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Ah. Just as I thought the answer is NO.BEsides the DBTeam haven't even made a tutorial on their site for multiplayer, and the example included with DBPro is a bit too advanced and complicated...now wonder nobody bothers with multi...

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Ian T
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Posted: 16th Aug 2003 23:46
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Your point is?

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bitJericho
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eh..is it some sort of contest with you? if you have questions post em...if you dont get a reply its probably because you posted 200 lines of source code..or your questions was not compressed enough and nobody wanted to deal with it

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8truths
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Does it strike anyone though that the vast majority of computer games are single player?

The few that arean't are almost all competitive netplay FPS games -- a pretty brave undertaking for early programmers.

I'd be surprised if there are more than a handful ever made with DB.

Doesn't make it bad . . . just reflects both DB's target audience and the target audiences that go with computer games.

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QuothTheRaven
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I've made a multiplayer game, and tested it with 3 people. It was a simple thing, and I would finish it if I could find my DB cd to install on my new computer. You could chat with the other players, each other player was a cylinder, you could see where they moved and the like.

And this must be the new crowd, because I remember the multiplayer game Space Station Alpha, playing with up to 4 friends with lasers

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lcfcfan
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Your wrong Terrabyte is making a multiplayer game!

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Preston C
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didnt they make star wraith a multiplayer game? or is this a DBPro multiplayer game only thread?



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TKF15H
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I'm making a multiplayer game...
It's on the games section of my web site (currently down).
It's half way through and needs LOTS of speed optimisations.

I need an animator!!! HELP ME!!
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Ian T
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SW3 isn't Pro , it's Classic. Which just goes to show how much is possible with Pro

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CloseToPerfect
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Posted: 17th Aug 2003 03:42
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Combat by Heartbone is multiplayer made in DBP.
he should be along anytime to plug it.

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Posted: 17th Aug 2003 03:54
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Heh, sounds like this is a 'I can't do it so no-one else can...' type post
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QuothTheRaven
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I meah hell yes, it's hard, my program was mostly copied code from a tutorial. It's near impossible to get it to work otherwise.

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Arrow
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Anyone else find is funny he only waited 8 minute for a reply?

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Eric T
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Me Thinks John Darkeye is jus anudder one o dem der Blitz peoples. (how do you like my redneck? )

Oh and yes Arrow.. i did find that Quite amusing that the Ol' Chap did only wait about 10 minutes.

besides.. i don't think he understands that baic was never meant to be a language to do online gaming.

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ignorant to assume no ones posted there work that no ones compiled one.

Not the sharpest tool in the shed are you mate.?

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Yian
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Posted: 17th Aug 2003 11:10
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no

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Posted: 17th Aug 2003 15:45 Edited at: 17th Aug 2003 15:47
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Programming MultiPlayer games for Windows is hell. The fact is, is that the DB/P team didn't do a half ass job. They probably hard coded the functions by themselves, when they should have used some pre built library (HawkNL, LibNet)..That would have made it much easier for DB/P users, but uhh.. Heh. Do you relize how hard it is to program sockets for windows? You can't just ask for a "connectToEverybodyWhoisOnline" function! Multiplayer is NOT for the weak, and is nothing simular to a "Basic" language, and heck shouldn't even be in DarkBASIC because of its complexity, yet the DB/P team thought it should. I talked to somebody who made a multiplayer game, that only ran with 3 people max (no it was not made that way), and it took him 9 months to iron out all the bugs . Read that last statement again. 9 months. Not a day, not a week, not 2 weeks. 9 months. And you all are expecting a multiplayer game to just pop out of the blue? ha!


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Yian
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Posted: 17th Aug 2003 16:19
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Heh my poin exactly however some dlls by RobK and Mr.TAToad might revolutionalize the situation with DBPro though....

-john D.
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Wiggett
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didnt that guy that is making magic world with those sphere guys make a 2 player laser match game ages ago in dbc? and didnt one of the copies of db come with a few demonstrations of multiplayer in db?


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