ChaosTanks 1.0

[andr]

Hey,

Have a look at this game:
http://www.myjavaserver.com/~onchaos/

[Danskeren]

"There was an error creating a new player"

[dsellars]

I didn't actually try creating a new player so I don't know if that worked here or not.  I just jumped in to a local map.

It looks like it is a nice little game.  I havn't had time to try it properly though.

Dan.

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[andr]

Yea, there was a minor error with creating a player for online game.
-fixed now;
also the server hosting the game seems to be very slow today...

[andr]

Nobody wants to try out my game?

tell me if there's errorrs etc,.,

[born2snipe]

andr-

This game is a lot like the tank game I was developing in my free time, until having to work 2 jobs took all that..... .  Granted you got a lot further than I did.  I felt it ran very smooth and I would give it an all around good score.  I really enjoyed the speed of the game, which was my main goal in my game.  I was aiming for an arcade feel, for the casual user to come and just blow stuff up.  You captured that well...good job.

I have yet to try out the online play due to working places w/ very restrictive firewalls.  The single player was fun until I was spawned right by the computer player and I couldn't get away let alone kill them....lol.

Have you profiled your server?  What's the max numbers of players set to play in a game at a time?  I would guess it's pretty small due to the size of the maps.

Overall this game has a lot of potential and if you need any help w/ development I would enjoy too.

b2s

[andr]

I just made a major change to the networkcode,
so only new downloads will work propperly online
now you only need one server port open..

Thanks for the comments...
I know the game is lacking a bit in playibillity especcialy against the computer

born2snipe: thanks, maybe you could give me some ideas for improvements...
although I dont know how much time I will have to spend on it..
I was thinking of using a big part of the code to make a strategy game out of it

[born2snipe]

What type of strategy game are you aiming at TB or RTS?

[andr]

I think TB
it would be easier I think, and no more problems with firewalls and routers,
everything will be goiong through the web server

[born2snipe]

Since you channeled all your IO through the one port have you noticed any latency difference?

I'm not sure how well it would work here @ work since we are forced to go through a proxy and cached server.

What are you using for your IO, standard java.net or NIO?  Blocking or Non-Blocking?

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[andr]

>>>Since you channeled all your IO through the one port have you noticed any latency difference?

- I didn't channell everything through one port! now it only listens on one port and creates a normal socket for each player when accepting connections. The game does not connect permanently to the web server, it only reads the ip's of users online.  

>>>I'm not sure how well it would work here @ work since we are forced to go through a proxy and cached server.

- performance wise it would probably be ok, but your proxy or server has to be set up to forward the ChaosTanks server port (3100) to your computer

>>>What are you using for your IO, standard java.net or NIO?  Blocking or Non-Blocking?

- just good old Socket


For the TB strategy version I would only connect to the server and since its turn based the data can be sent as http requests.