Re: Multiplayer game in cakephp

On Dec 29, 2010, at 22:04, cakefan wrote:

> I am thinking of hiring a developer to build a multiplayer game platform on to my existing website but have some conerns and wondered if anyone else may have done it before or know if its possible at all?
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> I would like to build multiplayer games like streetfighter on the site but I have been warned about lag. The site is hosted on a windows server 2008/apache. I have been told that games could suffer up to a second or more in lag so having a game like street fighter would defeat the point if users reactions are delayed against one another in battle. I guess things like chess and checkers would be fine as the users will be making a move in the game at their own time but is there a way for me to offer games like street fighter without the delay so players are playing in real time?

This doesn't sound like a CakePHP question yet.

If you're making a game on a web site, you're either doing lots of Flash and ActionScript programming, or writing lots of JavaScript controlling a canvas element. If this is an interactive game, your JavaScript will probably contain lots of AJAX- and Comet-type stuff for interacting with a server-side script to manage your game state and push it to all players. That server-side script could certainly be a CakePHP application if you wanted it to be, but all it probably needs to be able to do is to is receive a data packet from your JavaScript or ActionScript application in some well-defined format like JSON or XML, and respond to it with another data packet in a similar format, perhaps including interacting with a server-side database first. "How do I write a multiplayer online game" is a broad topic that's probably best researched by you elsewhere. If you have specific CakePHP-related questions once you've begun implementing some server-side logic, feel free to ask those here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_element

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)

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