Online Multiplayer

Graham · August 27, 2015, 8:57pm

I was wondering if there are any good tutorials or examples of a network multiplayer for haxe using UDP (I haven’t really been able to find any). Ideally, I was hoping to put together a multiplayer platformer, but for now I would like to test the waters with something more akin to two players communicating very basic information back and forth (no server) on a non-local network.

I should probably mention that I have no experience with communication protocols and the closest I’ve come to doing something like this is writing scientific code that communicates via MPI. So any general (non haxe) information would also be welcome.

Thanks for your time!

singmajesty · August 27, 2015, 9:04pm

I’ve seen a couple instances, but I don’t know if they were open source. I’d love to see a “ready to go” implementation of this, too

Graham · August 28, 2015, 2:41am

Do you know the names of those projects? They might have some information on their websites or personal blogs.

restorer · August 28, 2015, 6:42am

Not directly related to haxe or working with UDP, but still good article to read: http://buildnewgames.com/real-time-multiplayer/

singmajesty · August 28, 2015, 3:20pm

Nuggeta was one, I forget the other

sea_jackal · August 30, 2015, 5:12am

Udp is hard. Replica Objects are much easier (they work on top of udp)

Graham · August 30, 2015, 5:25am

What are Replica Objects? A search doesn’t return useful results.

sea_jackal · August 30, 2015, 6:02am

Sorry, they are called State Synchronization in Unity

meowman9000 · September 1, 2016, 7:56pm

Is there some OpenFL library that is used for sending the packets? Is openfl.net.Socket what people use?

sea_jackal · September 2, 2016, 8:16pm

Hi. My comment from a year ago was a hint to implement a native extension for Raknet or Photon libraries which are used by Unity and other engines