Denis Guillaume wrote:
Hello,
I don't know if we've got to move to another list or a private
discussion to continue this thread ?
Depends how interested in this the rest of the community is, is anyone
else interested here in this topic?
Richard, I am working on a timed turn-based strategy game, with
several players. You're talking about server components, I guess that
this is more time consuming to learn this technology than learning to
program bots in php :p ?
Ah cool, well the way I am implementing mine its not that much more
difficult really, all the game component needs to handle that the bot
probably wouldn't really be able to is multiple games going on at once,
although my component is in C++ so its probably a little bit more
difficult than PHP.
Michal, I guess what you call the game layer is a protocol independent
from its processing (whether by a server component or by a bot ?).
What I need for the project I am working on is :
- game tables initialisation with specific rules parameters ;
- timed game actions performed by the players ;
- game state messages (score evolution, win, etc.) and timed game
events processed by the server ;
- chat.
Do you want me to detail these ?
What I would describe the game layer is would be just what handles all
the very basic actions that would be common to almost all games, like
discovering available games, creating a game session, joining it, ending
it, inviting people etc, anything specific to a particular game would be
layered ontop of the basic stuff in its own namespace.
Maybe a reusable solution for other games could be a server component
handling the game sessions you described Michal, and bots processing
the specific mechanics of a given game...
The easiest way (and how im implementing it) is for the game component
to handle it all, what you are thinking of as a bot rather be handled by
the game component directly.
Richard
