Flight 2942 - BaconGameJam 01

[josefnpat]

Thank you bartbes for helping me further understand threads.Newest .love in github has this fixed.

Extremely unresponsive.

You are using one of my public servers on bluehost, so it will be very laggy.
I can help you set up a server, but it's rather involved (runs off a lamp stack).
It runs very smoothly on localhost.

[coffee]

can't download github link seems wrong or is to complicated for me .

You want the "raw" .love.

Also instead of browse among the source code Larsii30 you can also get the zip in the downloads tab and run the already "built" love file that is distributed also in that package. I think it's easier that way but if Josefnpat posts the love file in the start of this thread would be easier and quicker to invite people test it.

Josefnpat, good and bad news. It worked at least the server connection part but like T-Bone said well it's unplayable in ship maneuver and I was even playing alone there. Enemy/bullet collision detection is very bad I'm afraid

Anyway don't give up. For sure you know you need a lot of work to synchronize well the client and the server. Do this kind of real-time project with love is innovative, congratulations to the team.

[slime]

The solution to that kind of lag is client-side prediction. There are lots of resources about that topic on the 'nets, here's one: http://altdevblogaday.com/2011/07/26/pl ... nt-part-1/

[josefnpat]

can't download github link seems wrong or is to complicated for me .

You want the "raw" .love.

Also instead of browse among the source code Larsii30 you can also get the zip in the downloads tab and run the already "built" love file that is distributed also in that package. I think it's easier that way but if Josefnpat posts the love file in the start of this thread would be easier and quicker to invite people test it.

Josefnpat, good and bad news. It worked at least the server connection part but like T-Bone said well it's unplayable in ship maneuver and I was even playing alone there. Enemy/bullet collision detection is very bad I'm afraid

Anyway don't give up. For sure you know you need a lot of work to synchronize well the client and the server. Do this kind of real-time project with love is innovative, congratulations to the team.

Yes, the bluehost server is pretty horrid. I've tried it on faster servers and localhost, and it seems to clean up.

Thanks for the support! I've learned quite a bit over the 12 hours I took to make the game.

The solution to that kind of lag is client-side prediction. There are lots of resources about that topic on the 'nets, here's one: http://altdevblogaday.com/2011/07/26/pl ... nt-part-1/

This sums it up for the enemy/bullet/player collision problems. I know they are there, and I would have cleaned them up better, but I was running out of time, and did a super cheesy collision system based on updates. instead of projected intersections.Thanks for the link!



Now, go get this running on a local area network!