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Using Gmail credentials to authenticate users [closed]
I am developing a game in which I want the user to be able to use their Google Mail account to log in. They should be able to simply click on a Gmail login button and be taken to the Gmail login page, ...
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How to split login and game logic when writing servers?
I'm building a poker like game server, I was going to have all logins and game logic to be handled on one server, but from my research on the web, I learn that this would not scale, and it would make ...
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How do I manage multiplayer login?
How is the typical login, loading the level and spawning handled?
For example:
Client sends "iwanttologinwithcharacterx"
Server does some validity checks and instantiates characterx
Server sends ...
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UDP + digital signature vs TCP vs other solutions to guarantee message authenticity
TCP guarantees message authenticity rather reliably using packet sequence number.
Other option would be going with UDP and using digital signatures to make the message authentic.
What could be my ...
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Online Identification for Desktop Games?
What methods are there for providing means of authentification for multiplayer?
A few thoughts:
I don't want to be restricted to a single publishing platform such as Steam.
Something like OpenID ...
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Is WS-Security or REST+SSL a scalable authentication platform? [closed]
I'm trying to find a solid architecture for authenticating users against a database. I have a game client, which I plan to serve up a request with. The transport doesn't really matter, but at this ...
