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PixelGuys / Cubyz

Voxel sandbox game with a large render distance, procedurally generated content and some cool graphical effects.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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mesh network #266

Closed Pantyhose-X closed 9 months ago

Pantyhose-X commented 9 months ago

overlay networking since each node is both a server and a client overlay networking to create a direct encrypted tunnel between two nodes even if they’re both behind firewalls. Each node doesn’t even need to know the other’s IP address before starting the connection.

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IntegratedQuantum commented 9 months ago

I don't think this makes sense for a small-scale multiplayer game like Cubyz. A centralized server is needed in order to store a consistent game state. Otherwise it would be possible to get conflicting game states and I don't want to deal with that. Additionally, a decentralized system would require a lot of additional work and storage, since everyone would be storing copies of the information.

By the way, Cubyz is already in some ways peer to peer: There is no authentication server. The game server can be behind a firewall, due to using holepunching.