Nakama open source real-time social competitive game server

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• MoKaLux Member

  May 2020 edited May 2020

  Yes that would be cool but I don't understand yet all this stuff (udp, ping, server, client, room, lobby, ...)
  
  I have tried ar2sawseen draw together example and it still works fine today (I believe the code is 8 years old!!!) but it's only for local server (devices connected to the same network).
  
  What can we do with nakama? store players positions, health, ??? SEE THEIR GITHUB PAGE
  
  The problem is how to set up the server using docker,... it seems very complicated.

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• MoKaLux Member

  May 2020

  adding nakama to gideros would also contribute to gideros visibility for potential new comers.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  May 2020

  They have a defold.lua file in the engines folder, it's about a page of Lua code that basically is the interface to the engine's actual commands. If a similar gideros.lua file was added then it would simply fit in place.
  
  (on init of the API you specify which engine you would like to use)
  
  

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• jdbc Member

  May 2020 edited May 2020

  Nakama is a full open-source multiplayer server. It seems this client is a lua one, so it should work with Gideros.
  
  I will create a game test as soon I can.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  May 2020

  Copy their defold.lua file in engines, rename it gideros.lua. Then alter it to use the sockets system on Gideros. It should all work then. Once tested submit the mod to them on github.
  

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• jdbc Member

  May 2020 edited June 2020

  After reviewing the source code of the Nakama lua client, first it is needed to make 3 defold projects working with Gideros:
  
  https://github.com/britzl/defold-websocket
  https://github.com/britzl/defold-luasocket
  https://github.com/britzl/defold-luasec
  
  This project are websocket lua modules for Defold + lua projects, sure it could be work with some minor adaptations to set a websocket connection.
  
  Nakama client uses websocket for creating a permanent and bidirectional channel with server in order to submit request to Nakama server and receive data from server in real-time.

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• MoKaLux Member

  May 2020 edited May 2020

  this looks way too complicated
  do we really need this as solo devs?
  I think this is only suitable for small to big teams with one person dealing with the server coding.
  
  Otherwise as (at) apollo14 mentioned why not use Unreal server instead?

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• jdbc Member

  May 2020 edited May 2020

  MoKaLux said:

  this looks way to much complicated
  do we really need this as solo devs?
  I think this is only suitable for small to big teams with one person dealing with the server coding.
  
  Otherwise as (at) apollo14 mentioned why not use Unreal server instead?

  You will have to deal with server if you wish to develop a real-time or turn-based multiplayer game. I am expert in backend server mainly in java servers and I always think Gideros will need a websocket libraries to support servers connections, because mostly game clients to servers uses websocket. I was planning to make a turn-based game and Gideros was not my first option because of this.
  
  Gideros only supports websocket for HTML games not for desktop, android or ios.
  
  I do not know Unreal server but sure you will need also a Gideros client to connect to Unreal server.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  May 2020

  I think @totebo had a replacement websocket lib for all platforms, not sure though.

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  May 2020

  I wonder why using websocket when udp is available and more lightweight.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  June 2020

  Doesn't websocket confirm and sort delivery - but udp is more fire and forget?

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  June 2020

  If you need confirmation then you can use raw tcp.

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• jdbc Member

  June 2020 edited June 2020

  hgy29 said:

  If you need confirmation then you can use raw tcp.

  The point is that most client libraries for game server uses websocket. Sure it is easier to develop with websocket than udp or tcp connections. This is an interesting article about use websockets
  
  https://blog.stanko.io/do-you-really-need-websockets-343aed40aa9b
  
  My test project includes a colyseus version of the websocket adapted from Defold.
  https://github.com/jdbcdev/beatemup
  
  The websocket replacing parts of lua code for Gideros:
  https://github.com/jdbcdev/beatemup/tree/master/assets/websocket
  
  I have no much time now for adapt the Nakama client, but this is a beginning.

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• jdbc Member

  June 2020

  SinisterSoft said:

  I think @totebo had a replacement websocket lib for all platforms, not sure though.

  I have reviewed the websocket discussion, but I guess it only works for HTML targets.

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• jdbc Member

  June 2020

  hgy29 said:

  If you need confirmation then you can use raw tcp.

  May be the game server leaf is what you need to use tcp instead of websockets.
  
  https://github.com/name5566/leaf/blob/master/TUTORIAL_EN.md
  

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• jdbc Member

  June 2020 edited June 2020

  This is a test Gideros client for Nakama server: a nakama client is connected to server and authentication with email. Nakama client for Defold provides two clients, one based on coroutines and another based on function callbacks. Most changes will be in gideros.lua file, and json.lua could be replace with JSON native plugin also, but it is a first try.
  
  To install Nakama Server on Windows or Linux, just follow the official documentation for binaries. Two servers must be installed: cockroach as database server and nakama server.
  
  Do not use installation based on Docker. I have tried in Ubuntu machine but it does not work and it is more difficult to handle it without some knowledge in Docker containers.

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• MoKaLux Member

  June 2020

  thanks for your hard work and for sharing

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