Two players or more game communication

[Hamied Abou Hulaikah]

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?

 

[EnriqueGonzalez]

mqtt is particulary good for real time games. Other option if you are planning to have it both on native and web is websockets.

 

[KMatle]

Udp is fine (no overhead)

 

[ilan]

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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[LucaMs]

jServer - Websocket.

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/webapp-web-apps-overview.39811/

 

[ilan]

jServer - Websocket.

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/webapp-web-apps-overview.39811/

could be an option. need to modify the class and the b4j_ws js file a little bit. will check that too. i would really like to make a full multiplayer game that runs on web.

 

[Hamied Abou Hulaikah]

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.

 

[Hamied Abou Hulaikah]

Udp is fine (no overhead)

UDP is good, but it needs more works to be stable, also listing of players need TCP server.

 

[ilan]

socket.io is my second option after mqtt, it has more features, but I'm not familiar with it deeply.

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.

 

[Hamied Abou Hulaikah]

Using MQTT or socket.io need us to carefully planning of game workflow, or when players size increase we'll lost control.

 

[ilan]

Using MQTT or socket.io need us to carefully planning of game workflow, or when players size increase we'll lost control.

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.

 

[Hamied Abou Hulaikah]

i tried the chat example

Chat has low connection traffic, multiplayer game has a massive connection traffic for controlling everything in the game.

 

[Hamied Abou Hulaikah]

i am also not familiar with socket.io and MQTT so i would start study socket.io.

Excellent descision, socket.io is more features.

 

[ilan]

Chat has low connection traffic, multiplayer game has a massive connection traffic for controlling everything in the game.

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)

 

[Hamied Abou Hulaikah]

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