flash & lacewing = smashbros?

[life2searching]

would a smash bros style game with online multiplayer be way too laggy to be playable / fun ?

or do you think if it was kept relatively simple, it could be done?

[Dynasoft]

It could easily be done. You'd have to make sure your design gave enough "signal" time before attacks to cover the latency, so that the other player gets a chance to see that the attack is coming and block it before they are killed. The powerful attacks in most fighting games do this anyway, as a kind of balancing.

[life2searching]

hmm..is that so...!

you know these group funding sites like kickstarter.com... i would definitely chip in towards a online flash fighting engine for us all to use

edit:
or if that IS possible then a custom street fighter 2 style engine would also be awesome. i bet we could create stuff to rival those insane mugen videos if we worked together!

[Tuna]

Personally, I think this would be a bit too slow without UDP.

[Dynasoft]

Have you actually measured the speed difference between UDP and TCP? It's pretty much unmeasurable.

Keep in mind that UDP isn't reliable, and for a fighting game, you need some messages (like the fighting moves) to arrive, and fixing that is very hard. Using TCP just works.