Multi player game example or tutorial

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#1

HI Friends,

Can anyone suggest me the example for multiplayer game or its tutorial. I am really not getting it. How to use corona cloud for multiplayer game.

Hoping for the reply asap.

Regards

Varun

#2

they mentioned that they’re working on a sample app but haven’t given a specific ETA

#3

Hi guys,

Stay tuned, we’ll have some better resources on Multiplayer in the next couple days…

Thanks for your patience,

Brent

#4

HI Brent,

Thanks for the reply. if any thing is posted than please do post the link of the same here also.

Thanks 

Varun

#5

Hi guys,

As promised, we’ve just posted a new guide for Multiplayer, along with a blog post announcing the new Corona Cloud API library.

Updated guides are here:

http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/index.html

And the blog post here:

http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2013/04/23/new-corona-cloud-api-library/

The Multiplayer guide is  long , but that’s the “nature of the beast” since multiplayer is a complicated endeavor no matter which way you slice it. :slight_smile:

Brent

#6

In the mean time, you also asked for some example games.  It might be helpful to point you to a few multi-player games if you’re trying to figure out what to do with them.

The two modern mobile examples are Draw Something and Words With Friends.  In Draw Something, you play against one other person.  The first player gets three things to draw, and selects one, then they draw using various colors and brush sizes (using their finger on the touch surface) to draw a picture they think their friend can guess.   The friend gets notified that they have a drawing to guess and they have several letter tiles that they can use to ID the drawing.  Play continues indefinitely. 

Words with friends is similar, except its loosely based on scrabble where you have letter tiles worth so many points and you take turn putting words on the board trying to score the most points.  Eventually you run out of tiles and the game is over.

In both cases, you can have multiple matches going at once and the opponent doesn’t have to be online at the same time you are.  It’s why these are called “Turn based games”.  Corona Cloud is suited for these kinds of games.

Then you have card games, like Hearts or Rummy where you take turns playing a card, then play moves to the next player and so on.  These games can also be played with players offline, but the ambiance of the instantaneous updates might be hindered in a turn-based mentality, and perhaps these are suited more for a real-time game.  These can be done in Corona Cloud, and future updates will enhance the ability to make these games easier.

#7

Hi Friends,

Thanks a lot for the links and guidance provided by you all. 

Regards

varun

#8

they mentioned that they’re working on a sample app but haven’t given a specific ETA

#9

Hi guys,

Stay tuned, we’ll have some better resources on Multiplayer in the next couple days…

Thanks for your patience,

Brent

#10

HI Brent,

Thanks for the reply. if any thing is posted than please do post the link of the same here also.

Thanks 

Varun

#11

Hi guys,

As promised, we’ve just posted a new guide for Multiplayer, along with a blog post announcing the new Corona Cloud API library.

Updated guides are here:

http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/index.html

And the blog post here:

http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2013/04/23/new-corona-cloud-api-library/

The Multiplayer guide is  long , but that’s the “nature of the beast” since multiplayer is a complicated endeavor no matter which way you slice it. :slight_smile:

Brent

#12

In the mean time, you also asked for some example games.  It might be helpful to point you to a few multi-player games if you’re trying to figure out what to do with them.

The two modern mobile examples are Draw Something and Words With Friends.  In Draw Something, you play against one other person.  The first player gets three things to draw, and selects one, then they draw using various colors and brush sizes (using their finger on the touch surface) to draw a picture they think their friend can guess.   The friend gets notified that they have a drawing to guess and they have several letter tiles that they can use to ID the drawing.  Play continues indefinitely. 

Words with friends is similar, except its loosely based on scrabble where you have letter tiles worth so many points and you take turn putting words on the board trying to score the most points.  Eventually you run out of tiles and the game is over.

In both cases, you can have multiple matches going at once and the opponent doesn’t have to be online at the same time you are.  It’s why these are called “Turn based games”.  Corona Cloud is suited for these kinds of games.

Then you have card games, like Hearts or Rummy where you take turns playing a card, then play moves to the next player and so on.  These games can also be played with players offline, but the ambiance of the instantaneous updates might be hindered in a turn-based mentality, and perhaps these are suited more for a real-time game.  These can be done in Corona Cloud, and future updates will enhance the ability to make these games easier.

#13

Hi Friends,

Thanks a lot for the links and guidance provided by you all. 

Regards

varun