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Work in Progress / Multiplayer GUI + Example game

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AluminumPork
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Posted: 15th May 2005 04:24 Edited at: 15th May 2005 04:26
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Well, I've been working on this for a little while, but it WORKS! I've got a fully working Network Game setup GUI that allows you to Host or Join a game. I've never honestly seen a clean, straightforward network GUI, so here it is. I've also noticed a lot of confusion about multiplayer coding, so I set out to understand it.

The menu system is tied to an example game, "Collect the dots with the space ship". It allows two players to connect, and compete for collection of the most dots. It actually works pretty well. It works on a timer system, every time interval the host send the info, the client wait for the info, processes it and send back the client info. Because I did it this way, I reduced lag time by quite a bit.

Anyways, here are some screenies and the download is at the bottom. If anyone is interested in the source just say.




The download:
http://www.claytonjacksonmcghie.org/personal/screenies/display_ver.rar

So grab a friend and try it out, tell me what you think.

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Alkaline
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Posted: 15th May 2005 06:05
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very nice gui...any chance of releasing the way you did it..cause i liked it alot

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AluminumPork
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Posted: 15th May 2005 14:49
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I just used BlueGUI2 for the actual interface, but I grasped the multiplayer commands from scratch and found an easy way of doing it. Email me at grifty@gmail.com if you want the source.

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Sergey K
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Posted: 15th May 2005 18:31
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very nice..
there is any chance for a source?

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AluminumPork
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Posted: 16th May 2005 14:52
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Well, I've gotten quite a few emails requesting source. Any comments for the thread? DOWNLOAD IT! It really works, find the bugs. I'm currently working on a system that will allow many many more players than 2. Once I have a system finalized like that, I'll be sure to release it as an easy way for anyone to adapt multiplayer for their game.

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dj blackdragon3710
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Posted: 17th May 2005 01:50
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I already downloaded it and so far have found nothing wrong with the multiplayer. Hmmm, maybe this will work for what I'm shooting for......

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Posted: 17th May 2005 01:59
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Cool, yeah, if anybody wants to take a shot at making it support more than 2 players, go for it. The only problem is letting each computer know who's boss essentially. There alot of array junk to play around with this.

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