Air Hockey Online

yaroslavd · 2003-07-30T23:12:12

I want to make an online air hockey game. I decided to have the server broadcast the game info (all the players'' positions, table color, etc.) to the clients with UDP. I''m going to serialize the GameInfo object, send it as bytes to the clients and deserialize it in the client application. I''m also wondering what I should use for client->server communication. The client needs to send the server its position and velocity. I''m pretty sure I should use UDP, but I''m not COMPLETELY sure. Can anyone tell me if I''m doing this the right way? BTW, I''m using Java.

Networking and Multiplayer Programming

Started by yaroslavd July 25, 2003 09:14 PM

9 comments, last by yaroslavd 21 years, 6 months ago

Anonymous

July 30, 2003 11:12 PM

that''s the way to go.

In these days of cable modems, sending updates 30x sec won''t be a problem, bandwith wise. But you''ll find that even though you send a packet every frame, the client will not recive those packets on a regualr interval as they were sent. For smooth motion you will have to create some interperaltion code. This will reduce the number of packets down to say 10x sec, and produce smoother motion.

You should experiement on this and try to solve the problem, it will give u some good exp.

Good Luck!

ddn