Multiple local players

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  January 2016

  Currently not possible as they are sitting on the same port.
  
  Don't know if possible at all. It would mean to negotiate the port during discovery process, etc. Which seems to be overly complicated.

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• keszegh Member

  January 2016

  probably easiest solution is to have one player on your android device running and one on your desktop, then you can run your app on both of them at the same time.

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  Longtitle Productions, creator of
  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  January 2016

  Luckily the discovery protocol is already able to convey port information (not only host address), so it should be quite easy to do!

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• totebo Member

  January 2016 edited January 2016

  @keszegh I'm building functionality to match five players in a realtime multiplayer game. So using two clients works great, but I'll soon run out of devices!

  My Gideros games: www.totebo.com

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• keszegh Member

  January 2016

  @totebo, for 5 that's understandable, hopefully @hgy29 is right and he can implement this.
  
  my main concern when i did similar tests was that yet again i could not use zerobranestudio for testing as from it you cannot send to two devices simultaneously.
  
  

  Longtitle Productions, creator of
  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  January 2016

  Implemented in my gideros branch, along with automatic removal of no longer visible players from the dropdown list.
  Hopefully it will make its way into 2016.2 Release, that is if we manage to get 2015.12 out at last!
  

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• keszegh Member

  January 2016

  don't try to fool me, i know that 2015.12 is vaporware

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  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  January 2016

  yes, you waited enough, so I released it just now (with @SinisterSoft agreement). There is still a little something wrong with it (AppleTV with luasocket), but I thought most users wouldn't care...

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• antix Member

  January 2016

  I like the sound of this. I'm also implementing multiclient things and it would be great to have a bunch of players on my desktop to test with.
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2016

  I tested the latest release on everything I had - all seemed to work great apart from luasocket on appletv - but the fixed lib is available for a diy patch.
  
  +1 for multiple clients btw.

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  Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!).
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• totebo Member

  June 2016

  I've continued working on the multiplayer game again. Hey @hgy29, did this get included in the 2016-04 build?
  
  I see a flag called "Localhost Toggle" in the "Player" menu, but it doesn't seem to do anything.

  My Gideros games: www.totebo.com

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• totebo Member

  June 2016

  Bump.

  My Gideros games: www.totebo.com

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  June 2016

  @totebo, it was included in 2016.4, can't you launch multiple players ?
  

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• totebo Member

  June 2016

  Gah! No, just one at a time. It may be a Mac OSX thing only allowing one instance?

  My Gideros games: www.totebo.com

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  June 2016

  ah! Mac.. okay I never checked if this was working on Mac

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• totebo Member

  June 2016 edited June 2016

  Yes indeed! This Terminal command allows me to open more than one instance.

  open -n "/Applications/Gideros Studio 2016-04/Gideros Player.app"

  Maybe this way of launching the player could be included in the next build?
  
  Fantastic stuff, though! This is going to help a LOT when debugging multiplayer games.

  Likes: antix

  My Gideros games: www.totebo.com

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• antix Member

  June 2016 edited June 2016

  True Up till now I've been using my 2 Android devices, a player started from Gideros Studio, and a player started from ZeroBrane Studio
  
  Hows your ISO shooter coming along @totebo?

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• totebo Member

  June 2016

  Just fine thanks, may do a little reveal in July.

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  My Gideros games: www.totebo.com

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