My game engine right now consists of a working singleplayer part. I'm now starting to think about how to do the multiplayer part. I have found out that many games actually don't have a real single...

I am currently developing a real-time multiplayer game, and have been evaluating various cloud-based hosting solutions. I am unsure whether App Engine fits my needs, and would be grateful for any f...

I am experimenting with lidgren in XNA and I'm having some issues with the 'lag'. I've downloaded their XNA sample and noticed that even their sample lags. The thing is, the movement is not smooth...

i am developing a multiplayer roleplaying game, (No, its not a mmorpg. ;) My current setup is like this. Client tells the server "I want to move forward"/"I want to move backwards", the server t...

The Situation: I would like to ask what's the best logic for synchronizing objects in a multiplayer 1:1 game using BT or a web server. The game has two players, each of them has multiple guns &amp...

EDIT: I have made a clean, new project, but still can't get it working. Please download it, there is a little code to look at and probably easy for a professional or anyone remotely experience to s...

I'm writing a 2D space RTS game in C#. Single player works. Now I want to add some multiplayer functionality. I googled for it and it seems there is only one way to have thousands of units continuo...

I am planning is an OpenID client in a multiplayer network C++ game. The hoster will have the option to allow only logins from people who can authenticate via OpenID. Also I want to make it possibl...

I'd like to build a turn-based, multiplayer iPhone game that will require a game server somewhere to connect the players and dish out the world state data. I'm trying to understand how the game ser...

I'm thinking of creating a web multiplayer game in Node.js. This means I'll be using the same language in the backend and in the frontend. It would be in realtime and about 20 people max in each 'r...

Let's imagine really simple game... We have a labirinth and two players trying to find out exit in real time through internet. On every move game client should send player's coordinates to server...

A friend and I were having a discussion about how a FPS server updates the clients connected to it. We watched a video of a guy cheating in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and saw how it highlighted the...

I'm trying to create a small and basic "ajax" based multiplayer game. Coordinates of objects are being given by a PHP "handler". This handler.php file is being polled every 200MS, by using ajax. S...

I have the beginnings of a small multiplayer game that I'm writing in python as a learning exercise. Currently the server runs at 10 fps, while the clients run at whatever rate they like. This work...

I am building a small multipliplayer which will need the following: it must be written in Delphi must support Internet connection (not only LAN) work over HTTP support some encryption of the pack...

I've been writing a 2D flash multiplayer game and a socket server. My original plan for the movement algorithm between the client and server was the following: The client informs the server about...

I have some experience making multiplayer turn-based games using sockets, but I've never attempted a realtime action game. What kind of extra issues would I have to deal with? Do I need to keep a h...