Simple Question before venturing into XML

[hooligan2001]

Just wondering how hard and how would i do this

What i want is explained how i would do this not the code just in english how it would be done.

I am looking at adding a online side to one of my games and i was wondering how this would work and if it would be hard for a newbie or below XML flasher .

What i am going to do is do little tests and progresss in learning like that. Now i can code standalone flash games easily but when it comes to XML i wouldnt have a clue.What data needs to bee sent eg _x pos and so on.

For my first test i want people to be able to log on to the flash game and controll the avatar with the arrow keys. Now how would i make it work accross xml ? when multiple people log on ?

This all might not make sence but if you would like i will refraise it all . Also is their any teck notes i might be able to read on XML and or specifically on the topic at hand

ThankS in AdvanE

[hooligan2001]

Here i made a quick example:

test game

what i want to know how to do is update each players position through xml , how can i do this ?

[incarnate]

To do what you're trying to do xml isn't neccessary. Not in terms of the live action. If howevery you wanted to save variables for a player which could be loaded up again on a new game xml would be great for holding that information.

[hooligan2001]

What about when other people log on. When they move do i just change their variable on where they are eg,


palyer2x = 25;
player2y = 40;

and when they move just update that ?

Are they any examples i can browse through that you know of

[hooligan2001]

Has anyone here used xml with games before ?

[Gloomycus]

I think you need to have an XMLSocket server thingy (???)

[hooligan2001]

Yeh thats it.. I bought a book ne way on xml, i think its better i learn by myself and not ask other people to help with entire projects , ill only ask questions if i have a specific problem or if i am stuck thats anyway guys

[Unverse]

if you havent seen it, try Unity (http://www.moock.org/unity)...it allows you to use a library of Java classes to define rooms, and then define your own data types, so you could start passing xy positions of avatars to the rest of the connected clients.

Its Java based, but it allows you to get rolling right off the install with chat systems etc., and with a bit of work you can could get the tracking system going.