Multiplayer and Masterservers

[-AJRAD-]

Wow.... what a huge and incredibly difficult topic. BUT STILL... I NEED IT TO WORK :P

Anyways....

I've got a decent game and I want multiplayer.

All I'm asking here is does anyone have any working methods of relaying information from clients to servers? And how to make the masterserver. I've heard rumours of XML working but I've not got a clue about that.

[deadbeat]

You will need to use either the Flash Media Server or an XML socket server such as Unity to relay real time data between connected clients...

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/fms/2...tml/wwhelp.htm

http://moock.org/unity/

K.

[RockSpyder]

I made a two player sailing game that worked, sever is coded in C#, the server can get kindof complicated.

[-AJRAD-]

hell. thanks but unity is too expensive and flash media server won't download :S
Looks like I'm going to have to make my own XML server but the problem is I don't have a clue how to start :S

[RockSpyder]

If you don't know C++ or C# or Java I would reccoment using Java (cause its easier to learn), and taking a look at http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

[deadbeat]

There are also free XML socket servers available...here's one example:

http://palabre.gavroche.net/content/view/18/37/

K.

[-AJRAD-]

damn it you own :P
thanks and I was in the middle of being owned by trying to make my own :S