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greycheek

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Posted: 26th Apr 2017 13:27

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The online multiplayer documentation describes real time multiplayer, but my game requires asynchronous multiplayer in a turn based strategy game, with turn information passed back and forth, and the players taking their turn in their own time. How would I set that up?

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Kevin Cross

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Posted: 26th Apr 2017 14:45 Edited at: 26th Apr 2017 14:46

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I would do this with the HTTP functions AppGameKit has: https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/Reference/HTTP.htm

You'd need a database online with multiple tables storing user information, game and turn data etc.

Your game will send data to a server as POST data and you will have a page on the server (most likely written in PHP) that would read the data, and query/update the database. You can use the HTTP functions to read data from the databases too, all using scripts on the server to act as the go between.

There's an example or two in the projects that come with AppGameKit 2 that show how to use some of the HTTP functions.

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CumQuaT

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Posted: 28th Apr 2017 17:09

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I'm actually working on a TBM game and all I do is assign each player a unique index and have that index as the prefix to all network messages being sent out to know who is sending data, and then maintain a variable somewhere which indicates which player's turn it is. That way all network communication from other players can be ignore while it is one particular player's turn.

I work full-time making games in AGK2 and DBpro. Living the dream!

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Jack

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Posted: 28th Apr 2017 21:03

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Quote: "The online multiplayer documentation describes real time multiplayer"

You can decide when you send a message to the server by an if clause.

But, the http functionality, that Kevin Cross mentioned would be better, if you really plan to stay on round based multiplayer games.
The users could then play your game on phones with an old network adapter.

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