Re: [pygame] online game?

["Shandy (Andy) Brown" <sjbrown@xxxxxxxxx>]

May I also immodestly suggest my tutorial:

http://ezide.com/games/writing-games.html

sjbrown

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Before I continue into the strange world of pretty graphics, I want to
> check that Pygame can support some sort of online multi-player
> implementation. I expect no more than two players at a time. Is it
> possible to have two computers running the same game, both online,
> connected to each other, and have that game reacting to something the
> other player is doing? Here is an example. p1 and p2 are both players,
> connected over the internet. p1 is hosting (still not sure how that
> will work). The game is Battleship.
> p1: fires a shell at grid square b2, which is a square holding one of
> p2's ships. On p1's side, the square at b2 turns red and they are told
> they scored a hit. The game then locks them out of doing anything, and
> p2 is told it is their turn.
> p2: when p1 fires, p2 is told that their battleship was hit at b2, and
> some status info is updated. The lock is removed as soon as it is p2's
> turn, and p2 fires at d5, which is a miss. P2's d5 square turns white,
> and they are then locked out of the game as the turn switches to p1.
> p1: is informed that p2 missed, and then fires a shell...
>
> Is this possible? If so, how (as in where do I want to look)? If not,
> is there another library, maybe even one that would tie into pygame,
> that would let me do this? Thanks!
>
> --
> Have a great day,
> Alex (msg sent from GMail website)
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