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BK-TN / Sanicball

Source code for Sanicball, an extraordinarily fast racing game.
https://sanicball.bdgr.zone
MIT License
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Master server is down #27

Open CyberKiller40 opened 6 years ago

CyberKiller40 commented 6 years ago

Since about the 6th of October the master server for Sanicball is down. My running dedicated server cannot register (too bad, cause it was quite popular), the server browser in game doesn't show anything and probably tied to this - the game website is not running (5xx errors).

Please bring the master server online, or is there is a problem hosting it?

xSparfuchs commented 6 years ago

I fixed the problem. You can get the new files here. Also feel free to join the discord:https://discord.gg/0ugyklGsV5SmNs3F

CyberKiller40 commented 6 years ago

@xSparfuchs Sorry, I have no idea if I can trust you or your build. If there is a need for updated game files then I think they should be put as a new version on GameJolt and wherever else SB is published.

xSparfuchs commented 6 years ago

@CyberKiller40 As the server behind sanicball.com is offline i reproduced the serverside code. That code is hosted on a server of mine, and thats why the url needs to be changed in the game -> new build I can show you the code if you want. Also you can have a look at the serverlist here: http://www.heartofthetempest.tk/servers/index.php

CyberKiller40 commented 6 years ago

I think you would agree that without an official release such workaround will not help the game community. Sure it gets people to play, but only the ones who know about this and get the custom build. Everybody else who get SB from GameJolt etc will still get no online servers in the list. The only hope seems to wait for @BK-TN to notice this bug thread and take action. I see he's doing some coding in other projects on github so maybe he'll see the notification here.

xSparfuchs commented 6 years ago

@CyberKiller40 As his whole server is down, including http://bk-tn.com. I honestly think the Server just dont exists anymore... But you are right, he didnt disappear. I am already trying to get in touch with him and i'll let you know if i hear something.

Narwhal8 commented 6 years ago

Pease let us know. I just hope he can keep this game alive enough.

CyberKiller40 commented 6 years ago

I just noticed the master server is working again, all hail Sanicball multiplayer!!! :-) (my european server is up also)

BK-TN commented 6 years ago

Sorry for being terribly slow and silent in fixing it! The host of the site (OpenShift) revamped their platform which shut it down. Their new way of setting up a VPS was terribly complicated so I decided to migrate, even though the new one isn't free like OpenShift was. I ignored this for way too long because I'm not working on the game anymore at all and didn't think much of it.. but seeing this thread and the various other responses made me change my mind and get it running. Also.. I may or may not have been missing the ad revenue from the site :^) but thanks for complaining, it's good to see people still play this weird little game. Must be something to it besides the memes I guess..

CyberKiller40 commented 6 years ago

Hey, thanks for the info. Perhaps you could release the master server code in case this happens again and just put up a small update to the game, to make it configurable somehow? That way, somebody else would be able to run the master server without making their own SB binaries.

xSparfuchs commented 6 years ago

Yeah i can do that... Its pretty basic

xSparfuchs commented 6 years ago

But the problem is that the code of the game server+client has to be adjusted and recompiled to point to that server...

CyberKiller40 commented 6 years ago

Maybe the url can be read from a text file during game startup? (that would suffice to make it configurable, no special gui is needed, let's not expect to use it anytime soon ;-) )