Massively multiplayer online game.
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The game-server model to handle user actions
I'm starting to work on a mobile game that will have a server-side part (to handle user's interactions between them) and, of course, the client (game itself) part. It's not meant to be a browser game ...
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How to make sure user is running the newest version of mmo client?
In typical mmorpg game, you have a launcher and a client. You first run the launcher to update the client, then you run the client. In every mmo I tried if you run a client without updating first (if ...
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Is there a way to make a dynamic world such as a MMORPG horizontally scalable?
Imagine a open-world of 500+ players with data changing as fast as 20 updates/player/second. Last time I worked in a similar MMORPG, it used SQL, so obvioulsy it couldn't query the DB all the time. ...
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Integer vs String for “type” data in data-driven games
I've been developing a few mobile games, in which those games fetch their data from a server-database.
I'm used to storing "type" values as an integer identifier, and an enum in the client to ...
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Browser UDP Relay with TCP Websocket
I'm wondering if this is possible and what obstacles I might face.
I have a game that's browser based, and since I can't send UDP packets from a browser, Can I use a plugin that the browser connects ...
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Tricks in game mechanics to avoid dealing with network lag compensation?
Implementing network lag compensation is hard, how to avoid it?
Maybe it's possible to use tricks and build game mechanics in such a way that lag would be percieved as a non critical or even as a ...
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Online MMO collision detection for players & walls
Let's assume the following:
I have a server which stores the player's position (float x, float y, float z)
Client sends the server it's updated position ever 250ms or so.
Server has bounding boxes ...
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How many database connection should use in a MMO game server?
Game server links to database, how many database connection should use? The data update works like this:
update role object to database every X minutes, commit all updates every Y minutes.
There are ...
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Networking dynamic game worlds
I'm working on a 3D massively multiplayer space game in C++ and I'd like some advice from experienced game developers.
Essentially, the world (universe) simulated on the server is absolutely dynamic, ...
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When and where should I calculate collision response with multiplayer physics?
I've troubles wrapping my head around multiplayer physics and collisions on the client side, so far I interpolate the state of my network entities ( position and velocity ) of the other clients based ...
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2D destructable terrain with collisions in MMO
Task
What I want is to create destructable terrain (like in Worms) and collisions with this terrain (with calculated normals) that will be fast enough to work on server machine.
Basically lets say ...
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Why do MMORPGs still use multiple servers?
MMORPGs, some MOBAs like League of Legends or even StarCraft 2 usually force you to pick a server. Usually they are US, EU and SEA, in MMORPGs many per location. I can see that that was necessary a ...
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How to monetize freemium game that is cross platform playable?
I have a query and am really not sure if this is the right place to post it but if any one can help I will be grateful.
Am developing a game based on fremium model. It's already live on web and ...
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Multiplayer online game engine/pipeline
I am implementing online multiplayer game where client must be written in AS3 (Flash) to embed game into browser and server in C++ (abstract part of which is already written and used with other ...
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Server costs and back loading for mobile devices
A company approached me to design an MMO for the mobile platform and I have the perfect idea for them. My question is how much would a server for a FTP game that has both a PVE element and PVP cost? ...
