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Martomate / Hexacraft

A game with hexagonal blocks on a cylindrical world inspired by Minecraft

https://martomate.com/games/hexacraft

MIT License

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Plan network strategy #39

Open Martomate opened 4 years ago

Martomate commented 4 years ago

Multiplayer worlds may be:

Visible on LAN
Visible if you know the IP
Visible to anyone

Multiplayer worlds may be hosted:

From inside the game Like LAN in Minecraft with not so many settings
From a special menu item in the main menu Like the in game option but with saved settings
From a separate program Like Minecraft server No player is logged in on the server side

Connection (might be done differently for LAN);

Central server is used only for connecting players Keeps track of available servers Authentication can be implemented in the future, and required by the central server
A client can request to join a server, whereby the central server connects the two with a P2P connection The feasibility of doing this without port forwarding has to be investigated

Martomate commented 4 years ago

The connection can be done using NAT hole-punching. An example exists here: https://github.com/lklacar/java-hole-punching