[Suggestion] Potential Multiplayer Implementation

[microlith57]

Possible steps for a multiplayer implementation:

• Store 'possessed' vessels in client data / cookies, like the world is in the desktop client
• Move away from using paradise.ghost() and paradise.client and instead use client list, host, etc.
  • How to do this if the client controls possession?
  • Do we need these methods at all?
• Use methods like vessel.is_host()
• Potentially when a client joins a world, they immediately become a newly created vessel
  • This vessel could be a copy of a template vessel, potentially existing as a paradox of itself at ID 0.
  • When the template is copied, the new vessel is moved inside its owner (the library by default).
  • Before this, its program is run (if present)
  • This would allow for unlimited creation of arbitrary clients, and would still allow for configuration / customisation
  • Potentially need some method of auto-deletion when a client leaves a large server

Edit: change Store clients and associated vessels in world files (re: #29) to Store 'possessed' vessels in client data / cookies, like the world is in the desktop client

[TangentFoxy]

I forgot to reply here when I made it, but I did actually make a multiplayer version of this. It's got differences, and isn't as complete, but there is a kind of start: https://github.com/TangentFoxy/Arcadia

I probably forgot to mention it because I considered it unworthy of attention, but since this is still here and I haven't worked on it in a long time, I figured I should at least point to someone having begun an implementation of similar.

[TangentFoxy]

Also, this is very much OLD code and bad, but before I ever heard of Paradise, I started a similar project - the idea of an interactive creative world: https://github.com/TangentFoxy/Realms

Sorry if this is considered spam, but I felt it worth sharing, if nothing else to get ideas flowing.

[neauoire]

Nice work TangentFoxy :)

We've been implementing Paradise in Uxn, and planning on using Nilix's 9P implementation for multiplayer :) The project development has moved to https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/parade/

[TangentFoxy]

Thank you. Where can I read about the 9P implementation? (I'm not good at low level stuff at all, so I want to see an overview if I can.)

[neauoire]

Have a look at this :) https://nilfm.cc/git/xrxs/about/