Re: [pygame] Networking?

[Casey Duncan <casey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 19, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Jason Ward wrote:

> I want to make my game playable over the network and if possible  
> the internet.
> For the network it must support more than 2 computers and be realtime
> Would the sockets library in python solve all my needs?

The appropriate tool totally depends on the game. What works good for  
a turn based game isn't gonna fly for a first person shooter, for  
instance.

I would use sockets in the following circumstances:

- You need low-level control and are already familiar with socket  
programming and serializing/de-serializing across the wire. Note that  
you will also need to know how to use async i/o or threads as well.
- You really want to want to learn all of the above and have a lot of  
time and enthusiasm.

First I would see if there is another similar game out there that  
already supports networking. How did they do it?

-Casey