This week I managed to get peer to peer network play functional! It is now possible to play a game of Rivalry with a friend anywhere around the world by using the peer to peer method which is considerably faster than using the server relay method. However, I still have to fix the peer to peer lifecycle and how it dismantles its connections once a game is finished. Currently you can only really have one game before things start to fall apart. There are also still some optimizations that can be made to the architecture of the code and how packets are unpacked and processed. But once this has been done, all the peer to peer related bugs are fixed and the networking UIs are polished I could say that the network feature has been completed and I can move onto the next feature, player skins. I also looked at how to optimise network speed times by controlling the rate of host frames being sent by the host to all the clients. I can change the network frame rate dynamically, so in theory I can have it scale with network performance. I could potentially also have it so if there is a large influx of players using the server relay method I could lower the host frame rate which would decrease the amount of information on the network allowing the server more time to process requests. Pending tasks are now
- Finish Peer to Peer
- Complete network game lobby UI (make pretty and complete all network game modes).
- Complete network game restart UI (make pretty).
- Research player skins.
- Research different arenas and backgrounds.
- General tidy up and enhancement of look and feel..
[ 2017-09-17 07:04:27 CET ] [ Original post ]
- Rivalry Depot - Linux [127.28 M]
Imagine a game that's a turn based strategy game, mixed with a side scrolling fighter and then add some rag-dolls and you've got Rivalry.
As the result of a successful Kickstarter for the marketing on his game at PAX , 14 year old Kew McParlane is presenting 'Rivalry', playable wireframe of his turn based two player sword fighting game of deep strategy and hilarious fun.
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04. SteamOS
- Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 720p display. Any graphics card since 2004 should work.
- Storage: 300 MB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04+. SteamOS+
- Processor: 3.4 GHz Intel i7Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 720p+ Display. Intel HD Graphics 4000 and higher. ATI Radeon HD-Series 4650 and higher. Nvidia GeForce 2xx-Series and up
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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