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>> Play on my home server >><\/a><\/del><\/h1>\n

>>Play on my home server>><\/a><\/del><\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n

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So I started making an online multiplayer thingy. How hard can it be? I asked myself.<\/p>\n

Well\u2026 PRETTY HARD! Making a game on a single computer has became pretty straightforward to me, but making a game on multiple computers is much more complicated, since I had to synchronize the characters, and make sure to remove and add characters when they connected or disconnected. I used js for both client and server (node.js) and used sockets.io to do the realtime communication. My code is certainly a huge mess! I had a chunk of code for the client, a chunk of code for the server, and a chunk of code that both had access to, not speaking about libraries.<\/p>\n

Anyways, it\u2019s a beginning, and I\u2019d like to see some of you made try it, to make sure the port forwarding and everything is correct. The link will be valid until I will shutdown the computer or my IP adress changes.<\/p>\n

>>Play on my home server>><\/a><\/del><\/p>\n

The link will be down<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>","time":"March 5th, 2013 7:42 am","title":"My first multiplayer online demo!","title_was_empty":false}