LAN Pong

Here comes the first version of my demo game, LAN Pong. For now only single player is done, but almost all game mechanics for MP are prepared, so next step will be including the SDK for MP

now on SVN...
greetz WV

well fine, my server has player and session list implemented, time to write a real demo game :) on SVN...

greetz WV

it actually works fine! I love my packed vars... :) now on SVN

greetz WV

Universal Game Server SDK

following up to the previous post, I created a SDK for a universal gameserver. It will handle player authentication, stats, lobby chat and game listing. So f.e. an example game log into it and sees what other players and games are available. Once a hosting player starts a session, the other talk to him over p2p with the IP they got from this game server. The "protocol" are the packed variables from previous post. WIP and first stable version on SVN :D

here the example code for creating the test packet, convinient enough for me^^

public static void SendTestPacket()

        {            

            List<NetHelper.PackedVariable> l1 = new List<NetHelper.PackedVariable>();

            l1.Add(NetHelper.CreatePackedVar(1, -1)); 

            l1.Add(NetHelper.CreatePackedVar(2, (uint)0x1000)); 

            l1.Add(NetHelper.CreatePackedVar(3, 3.1415f));

            List<NetHelper.PackedVariable> l2 = new List<NetHelper.PackedVariable>();

            l2.Add(NetHelper.CreatePackedVar(5, l1));

            l2.Add(NetHelper.CreatePackedVar(4, "Hello World"));

            List<NetHelper.PackedVariable> l3 = new List<NetHelper.PackedVariable>();

            l3.Add(NetHelper.CreatePackedVar(5, l2));

            l3.Add(NetHelper.CreatePackedVar(2, (uint)0x1111));

            SendPacket(NetHelper.CreatePackedVar(5, l3));

            log.Write("GameClient : Test Packet Send", 5, Color.Blue);

        }

greetz WV

Packed And Streamed Variables

Sometimes a picture explains alot more than text. I needed a way to send structured (nested) variables over network as streams of bytes, so I decided to go for blocks that can nest, and quickly implemented this (10 mins). Its a bit like binary xml I guess :)

greetz WV