Apfellord wrote:

Hello everyone,

so recently, I have been working on a 2-player online game using the scratch wiki's example of online multiplayer and that's great and all.

But what if I wanted more than just two people to play together in different “rooms” at the same time?
I'm guessing there's not a way to make infinite rooms, but how would you people go about scripting something like that? (Without making a ton of Player 1 and Player 2 Cloud Variables and their corresponding position-cloud variables)

Could you stuff a lot of people's coordinates into one variable and have them somehow know at which point in the variable their coordinates stand? But how would the person on the other end know at which point their opponents coordinates are?

I know this is some pretty advanced stuff and I hope someone is the genius I'm looking for that has maybe done something like this already or has seen it in another project somewhere already.

Thank you all and have a great day!

Koopakid6000 wrote:

Apfellord wrote:

Hello everyone,

so recently, I have been working on a 2-player online game using the scratch wiki's example of online multiplayer and that's great and all.

But what if I wanted more than just two people to play together in different “rooms” at the same time?
I'm guessing there's not a way to make infinite rooms, but how would you people go about scripting something like that? (Without making a ton of Player 1 and Player 2 Cloud Variables and their corresponding position-cloud variables)

Could you stuff a lot of people's coordinates into one variable and have them somehow know at which point in the variable their coordinates stand? But how would the person on the other end know at which point their opponents coordinates are?

I know this is some pretty advanced stuff and I hope someone is the genius I'm looking for that has maybe done something like this already or has seen it in another project somewhere already.

Thank you all and have a great day!

You could have a character that acts as a separator.

deck26 wrote:

Koopakid6000 wrote:

You could have a character that acts as a separator.

But if several players are updating the same cloud variable at around the same time you could hit problems. That's why I prefer one cloud variable per player.

For turn-taking games that isn't a problem but you have to introduce management of whose turn it is next and ensure that if someone disconnects everything doesn't just grind to a halt.

Apfellord wrote:

deck26 wrote:

Koopakid6000 wrote:

You could have a character that acts as a separator.

But if several players are updating the same cloud variable at around the same time you could hit problems. That's why I prefer one cloud variable per player.

For turn-taking games that isn't a problem but you have to introduce management of whose turn it is next and ensure that if someone disconnects everything doesn't just grind to a halt.

It actually is a turn-taking game. I'm currently building an engine for a Hearthstone-esque card game (of course without collecting cards and not nearly as gigantic and complex as Hearthstone). The “MP Test” project I linked above was just to give an example.

I've also been thinking about the “character as a seperator”. One way I could implement this is by having a sprite called “reader” that simply goes through
the cloud variable one character at a time, until it detects that special “seperator”.

But that's probably too slow or not enough to solve the problem.

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gameman300 wrote:

denhaerynckjonathan wrote:

I'm making an online game with a lobby system! When the game is ready, I'll give you the link! Okay?