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How do I allow a player to build a dedicated server, but prevent them from cheating?
Instead of maintaining a central server, many games allow players to build their own server, like Minecraft.
But if you give them the server-side program, how could you prevent them from cheating? I ...
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What would be best practice of client comunication in a multiplayer game
Assume that we have a multiplayer game and the users are moving their characters (might be a circle) on the game area. At every game loop some changes can be happened. Should clients send their ...
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php multiplayer game - server&client model
I'm working on a simple round&web-based multiplayer game. The idea of the game is very simple: The players get an array of audio files which they listen to and write the transcripts for in 5 ...
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How to properly do weapon cool-down reload timer in multi-player laggy environment?
I want to handle weapon cool-down timers in a fair and predictable way on both client on server.
Situation:
Multiple clients connected to server, which is doing hit detection / physics
Clients ...
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Worker roles in Windows Azure to host a multiplayer server
I've been doing research on where to host a simple multi-player backend for a simple game I'm developing. So as a first choice I downloaded the Windows Azure SDK, which provides a nice and simple ...
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A simple example of movement prediction
I've seen lots of examples of theory about the reason for client-side prediction, but I'm having a hard time converting it into code. I was wondering if someone knows of some specific examples that ...
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How can multiple clients be out of sync if they use the same RNG seed?
I have been working on a client-server architecture to enable LAN play for my open source game, Aigilas. In its current state, players stay synced in all running instances of the game but enemies and ...
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game multiplayer service development
I'm currently working on a multiplayer game. I've looked at a number of multiplayer services(player.io, playphone, gamespy, and others) but nothing really hits the mark. They are missing features, ...
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FPS networking with server sending input instead of gamestate
Why do all fps games have the server send gamestate instead of input which is smaller?
One reason I can sort of see is that if the server sends input to the clients and a packet gets dropped then the ...
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C# multi-player socket server (need clarification/suggestions)
I've been working on an 2D-RPG for a while and I recently decided to make it into an MMO (not really massive, but multi-player). Anyways, I'm attempting to write a game server in C#. Yes, I know I ...
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Multiplayer box2d networking for turn based game
I am currently in the planning stages for a 2D game for mobile devices
which I will be making in C++ using cocos2d-x. The game will be turn based and each turn will have a phase in which the physics ...
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Is it possible to use 3G internet for a TCP/IP game server?
I'm working on a turned based multiplayer android game with a friend.
I started working on the game server and client using socket programming.
I found a few tutorials on how to implement a basic chat ...
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How can I alleviate network lag issues with players from other countries?
I am developing a small multiplayer game where players move through the map and interact with each other. The game is written in VB.Net.
When I tested my game with players on a LAN everything worked ...
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Which Database (RDBMS vs NoSQL vs BOTH) to use for a Realtime Multiplayer Game?
I'm working on a realtime multiplayer game that will require a database (for features such as player profiles, friends, unlocks, news, etc.) This is a standard PC game (not browser-based) and will use ...
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What time to display in text messages in multiplayer game?
Say I'm having a multiplayer RTS game. There's a main server for each individual game and several clients connected to it. All packets are sent to server first and then server retransmits them back to ...
