Two players or more game communication

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Hamied Abou Hulaikah

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Challenge game between multiple online players.
I think about using MQTT pub/sub model for communication/interaction, I think it is better than traditional client/server communication, any suggestion?
 

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had a look at socket.io and i think it could be also a good option.

i will make more tests and put my feedback on it but it looks promising for simple games.

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jServer is traditional client/server communication, that is means many factors can affect its speed/performance.
socket.io is my second option after mqtt, it has more features, but I'm not familiar with it deeply.
 

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HAH said:
socket.io is my second option after mqtt, it has more features, but I'm not familiar with it deeply.
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i am also not familiar with socket.io and MQTT so i would start study socket.io.
what i have seen it does not look to complicated. i tried the chat example they offer and it looks really good. performance was very good but again i tried it on the same network so i need to make more tests.
 
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Using MQTT or socket.io need us to carefully planning of game workflow, or when players size increase we'll lost control.
 

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HAH said:
Using MQTT or socket.io need us to carefully planning of game workflow, or when players size increase we'll lost control.
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you can always limit the player amount if this is an issue. again it depends a lot on what kind of game you want to do.
a multiplayer poker game will be much simpler than a car racing game.
 

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Chat has low connection traffic, multiplayer game has a massive connection traffic for controlling everything in the game.
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yes i know but i saw that people did really nice games with socke.io
first I will try to run socke.io with b4j and after that, i can try to make a simple box2d game like PONG and from there make more complex games.

we have already socket.io for b4a and b4i but its an old version so i hope it will get updated soon and we can also make b4x apps using socket.io that connects to a b4j webserver or maybe nodejs server (what is already possible)
 
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I hope b4x to fully support latest era of socket.io, it is amazing like mqtt.
@ilan; we'll wait your new library of socket.io
 
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