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"Online" games are played over the internet (as opposed to "offline" on a local machine) and usually allow multiple players to interact with one another in some way. Popular examples include first-person shooters and massively-multiplayer RPGs.

"Online" games are played over the internet (as opposed to "offline" on a local machine) and usually allow multiple players to interact with one another in some way. Popular examples include first-person shooters and massively-multiplayer RPGs.

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Simple matchmaking algorithm for 2 player online game

I am looking for a simple matchmaking algorithm for 2 player online game. Which one has better performance? (I use vps, centos and php) User one sends a request to server for game and because there is no previous request there, it puts his username…
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Should i write my own flash-server in Erlang or use Red5?

I'm a student about to start my exam project, where I will be responsible for the server implementation of an online game targeting the flash player. I have a hard time to decide wether i should write my own lightweight server in Erlang or use the…
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Best approach to create online game?

I have developed a simple card game based on Scopy. Now I want to upgrade my application for 1 vs 1 online game. I'm not new to Java, I know sockets. I was wondering if there is a better way to start this work. EDIT: it is a turn game, the players…
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Autohotkey: Scrape text from window (LOTRO)

I am fairly advanced with my LOTRO scripting, but sadly, have not figured out a way to capture data from the chatbox. I am trying to write an external mapping application and would like to have autohotkey automatically grab data from the screen,…
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Why are the 'pixels' on my scaled HTML5 canvas strangely aligned?

I'm currently writing a little HTML5 canvas/JS based snake clone similar to the classic Nokia Snake. (This is my first HTML5 canvas/JS game as well as my first game, I'm still a novice programmer ;) ) To keep things simple I decided to make every…
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Php-Flash communication over sockets

Good time of the day, dear developers! I am not any kind of network programming pro, but it happened that I have faced necessity to develop socket-server on php (no way for using Java) for flash multiplayer browser-game (standard features like…
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Online games: update the clients with deltas or with the new status

I'm implementing a online chess for Android and I have a question about how to update the players with the other player's movements. For example lets imagine the Player1 moves his tower from a1 to a7. What should I do? Send to the Player2: "a1 to…
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Embed Adobe Flash player into Java based desktop application

How can I embed a adobe flash player inside a java based desktop application? Can I be able to load and run an on-line flash game in it? Thanks.
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Receiving data from server in while loop Shows window not responding

I am making a beginner online multiplayer Tic Tac Toe game which runs on local server. I am having 2 issues with my code.I have divided my game folder into 6 python files: Client1.py:- This file is the Output file which the client will have.I am…
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Use redis for object oriented proggramming

I have created an online game which is written in object oriented programming and node.js . after clustering I decided to make these clusters stateless and save game objects in redis . How can that be done with keeping my game Class untouched ?…
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How to make a "Find Match" like Mobile Legends or some other MOBA game?

I'm trying to create a lobby system that will find a match like other MOBA Games. Like when 10 players is finding a match, it will start the game and when there's only 9 players the system will still wait until it becomes 10. I used Photon PUN 2 but…
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Managing multiple games with Node.js and Socket.io

I am a newbie in node.js and socket.io. So I made a small project and tested some things with a small real-time chat, which works very nice. But I ask me, what's the best way to manage multiple games with node.js and socket.io? Let's say, I want to…
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best way to see if user is online in android application

I am making a game where to players play together in a game through internet,so i wanted to check to see if one of them left the game so i notify the other player . currently i have written a code which runs every second on client side and sends a…
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Online game using .net technologies

I am new in game development, but I'm thinking about creating online browser game on asp.net mvc3 using entity framework for ORM data mapping and SQL Server 2008 DB for data data storage. I would like to hear your thoughts about this. What…
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Entity Framework in an N-tier online game

I am trying to find a good design pattern for an online game (for an educational project, not commercial). Lets say I have a table of Players, and a table of Maps in my DB. So the entity framework auto-generated these Model classes: public partial…
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