We made a game for Ludum Dare as well

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/ ... -spaceship

SSSSbanner.gif Spacesquid Spaceship is a clicker game created in 72h for Ludum Dare 39. The theme was "Running Out of Power". It was created by Ikroth, myself, and an artist friend. It has you balancing your time between clicking on enemies in each of the rooms to destroy them, powering u...

I've been looking forward to this!

I have some suggestions. Maybe a simpler way would be to just make a guess of how long it will take. You could perhaps calculate a guess based on ping and file size. If you are sending percentage updates from the server, ensure that is sent over a different channel than the file data or the progress...

Hey, that's networking, it's weird all the way down

While putting the networking in another thread seems like a just and noble thing to do, I have an alternate suggestion. Enet automatically splits the data you want to send into smaller packets. When you are sending them with the "reliable" mode, it ensures that each of these packets is rec...

Thanks, I like it too :) The only shaders used are a bloom shader and another for the white "stripes" on the rockets. The fireworks were made by spawning a bunch of particles with randomized direction and speed, all affected by gravity. Each particle records its position and time each fram...

Happy 4th of July from America!
Although I dislike fireworks because they are loud, annoying, and typically used late at night, I was inspired by them and created this.

@Fenrir, I just wanted to mention that you can get the public IP in lua-enet using tostring(peer) Also thank you for the information. @jack, if you could forward messages via the server it would work, and a single server would be enough to handle many sessions at once (if the messages are infrequent).

I think the reason for that might be that connect doesn't get processed until the server/client update.