How do I create a limited multi-player game?
Ok lets say you have your game with OINC but it's a 4 player game, so only 2, 3 or 4 people can play at a time.
I'd Imagine you should do it like this- Lets say you start in a general chat room with a "host game" button & a list of games to join, at any time you can create or join a game which sends you to a channel but only if there are less than 4 people in that channel & that game hasn't started yet and the host can press start so they can blow each other up. (Or In other words, like battle.net).
So...
1) How do I create a list of availible Games?
2) How can a player create a Channel?
3) How do I limit the number of players in a specific Channel? (not all, I dont want a limit on the entry chat room).
4) How do I check to see if a game hasn't begun yet and people are still joining?
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1) Wait for the next alpha which has channel listing capabilities
2) Join a channel which doesn't exist and it will be created automatically
3) You would have to modify the server to have that functionality. I think Mathias was making an automatic server code generator for things like this if you don't want to learn Python or C++ (it's not finished yet, though)
Alternatively, you could limit it client side, although this is pretty easy to hack.
4) This is specific to how you code your game - unless you have something special server side, you could check the number of players in the channel.
Get in touch with Nick, he made a functional game like you are describing in OINC.
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3) You'd just have to an expression like this 'GetChannelPeers("OINC Client", Channel Name)' to retrieve the amount of peers in a specific Channel and I can check while still in entry chat room to see if you can join it.
5) How do I create Channels that won't appear on the Games Listing, like the entry chat room or private games?
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3) As I said, you could do it client side.
5) It's all part of the next build.
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When the next Build comes out or later afterwards, i'll test all of this with a simple 4 player game, maybe a tank game with a grid.
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This is exactly what I'm working on right now...!
It ain't easy!
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Not easy for you but Iv'e planned it out carefully and decided to do a 'everything done on host's computer' approach that way it should be easy to counterstrike most OINC related problems.
For Example: Player 2 presses Up, Player2 asks Player 1 to see if one up from Player 2 is obstacle if not, move Player 2 Up from Player 1's Computer then tell all the other computer's Player 2 has moved Up.
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Well, if you're concerned about security, here's a few tips:
The client shouldn't have to ask Player 1 if it can move up or not. Player 2 could do something like: tell Player 1 it wants to move up, then Player 1 sends a 'Player 2 is moving up' message to all the clients, and when Player 2 collides or stops, a 'Player 2 is now stopped' message is sent.
That's how I would've done it, atleast.
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Originally Posted by dragonguy
Not easy for you but Iv'e planned it out carefully and decided to do a 'everything done on host's computer' approach that way it should be easy to counterstrike most OINC related problems.
For Example: Player 2 presses Up, Player2 asks Player 1 to see if one up from Player 2 is obstacle if not, move Player 2 Up from Player 1's Computer then tell all the other computer's Player 2 has moved Up.
Well it's clearly not easy for you either, or you wouldn't be posting questions for each stage of it??
Sounds like a great lag-free system though...
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Well you see it will be grid-based, that is what enables me to do it in such a way, if it didn't have a grid and you can move and point anywhere then a security system would be very laggy unless you do it Darkkillers way.
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And what if Player 1 cheats and tells Player 2 it can't move?
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Hosts are less likely to cheat than Standard Players just like Mods are less likely to abuse the forums than Regular Users.
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That depends, are you letting users host their own servers?
Some people host hacked servers that allow them to be cruel to unsuspecting players for fun you know.
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You can't compare a game to these forums. Moderators work for the benefit of the clickteam community. Players (including the host) work against other users to win something.
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Originally Posted by pinacoladaxb
You can't compare a game to these forums. Moderators work for the benefit of the clickteam community. Players (including the host) work against other users to win something.
...what?
Where was a comparison made between the forums and a multiplayer game?
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Originally Posted by DragonMC
...what?
Where was a comparison made between the forums and a multiplayer game?
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Originally Posted by dragonguy
Hosts are less likely to cheat than Standard Players just like Mods are less likely to abuse the forums than Regular Users.
Dragonguy made a comparison my friend... ;)
