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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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Dynamic proxies for game objects

I am looking for the best approach to build an observer that can monitor the changes in the game object for purposes of client/server synchronization. For example my game may have multiple game ...
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Would it be too much overhead to keep a HashMap of variables on a server per object for the purpose of syncing object changes with the client?

I am currently writing a server for a multiplayer game. I am trying to find a good solution for synchronizing GameObjects across the server. The server sends each client a snapshot of every object in ...
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MMO Proxy Server

I am building an MMO and someone told me I should never have my application interfacing directly with the net, and that I should have a local proxy. This makes sense, with security issues and scaling ...
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How do MMO servers communicate with players who are behind a NAT?

I'm now planning to develop a real-time mmo in the future using udp as the transmission protocol since it has lesser overheads than tcp... I understand that between the client and the server, they ...
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Transition Player Position

I'm currently working on a Java MMO with a pretty solid start, but I've come across an issue I need a little help with. I'm working on player positions. Meaning their X/Y on the screen, if the ...
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programming light sources in java

I was making a game and I wanted to program light sources but I don't know how to. every where I search it comes up with lightweight java. Can any one offer any help. Its a birds eye view mmorpg. Can ...
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Java or Flash for MMO Game?

I hope this question hasn't been asked before. I'm thinking of creating an MMO game, perhaps for Facebook. I've investigated the options of using Java or Flash/Flex. But I'm still not sure which to ...
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Can you make a 3d game in eclipse java? [closed]

Hello can you make a 3d game like minecraft using java?
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Pub/Sub or message passing in multiplayer server backend?

For my masters thesis I'm going to develop a scalable multiplayer server for locationbased games. It's going to be a "service oriented architecture" e.g. one dedicated service for positions, one for ...
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Mouse-driven Movement

I'm trying to write a game where player picks where they are going by just mouse-clicking on that position and it goes there (just like RuneScape's point-and-click mouse interface). I'm trying to get ...