Hi, Possibly worth mentioning, your game play outlines two players but you mention multi-player as well.
With Android it is possible to support more players over BT maybe 4 in client server, possibly a few more in a daisy chain BT network. (Do a google search for examples.) As mentioned try to keep the BT isolated, you could readily do the same over wifi. Also keep the client and server logic separate. Whilst Player A (or B) might run the server updating overall game logic, it should also be an ordinary client communicating with the local server. Perhaps as an implementation detail, the communications and server might run in an Android Service and the clients as Android Application. Regards On Nov 1, 9:53 pm, Latimerius <l4t1m3r...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Tom Yu <xuejianyuandr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey everyone. My name is Tom Yu. First time poster and hopefully it > > won't be my last. > > > I got into learning how to develop android games through the book > > "Beginning Android Books" by Mario Zechner. With what I learned, I > > developed my own game of the "jumping on platform" genre (similar to > > doodle jump). > > > I want my game to include multi-player bluetooth functionality such > > that both players can play co-operatively or competitively. They can > > jump together to reach the princess at the top, or they can destroy > > each other. > > > My ability in bluetooth programming is lacking. I did take a look at > > Bluetooth Chat Example but I don't think that that will be enough > > given my current programming skill level. > > > Could someone help me understand and design the logic of how this > > should be implemented? I want the scenario to play out like this. > > > 1) Two people turn my game on > > 2) They navigate the menu and connect via bluetooth > > 3) Both player's screen should contain each player's character. > > 4) Player A would act as the server, updating game logic, and Player B > > would act as the client, who simply send whatever input is received to > > Player A. > > > I'm trying to understand at a high level, how to design this in java > > for android. I appreciate any help. > > Hey Tom, I wrote a BT networked game a while ago. What I did was I > took most of the connection set-up logic from the BT Chat Example and > I think this might a reasonable thing for you to do, too. Once the > connection is set up, you have a fairly abstract communication channel > to the other side and from that point on, there isn't really much > BT-specific or Android-specific there - if anything at all. You can > use any tutorial and any information related to game network > programming, regardless of whether it mentions Android/BT or not. > > For instance, my game was an action one so I implemented a lot of the > same client-side prediction stuff Unreal and others use on PC's and > wired LAN's and pretty much anywhere else. In fact, BT > characteristics wrt game programming are rather similar to LAN - > fairly low latencies, low to zero drop rate. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
