Gideros Unite Framework

ar2rsawseen 2012/07/25 Gideros Mobile, updated 2023/12/13 (V2)

Gideros Unite framework provides a way to implement Multiplayer games:

using LuaSocket to establish socket connections and create server/client instances
device discovery over Local Area Network
call methods on devices through the network
protocols: tcp, udp or both (binding some method to tcp if reliability is needed, and others to udp for faster data processing)

You can download the Gideros Unite Framework: Unite.zip

And an application project: DrawTogetherV2.zip

This is a standard scenario that can be created using Gideros Unite framework:

Server starts broadcasting or skip to step 5, if all clients know server IP address
Client's start listening to servers
Client receives broadcast message from server, newServer event is initiated
Client autoconnects to server or user manually (by pushing button) connects to specific server
Server receives newClient event
Server accepts client automatically or user manually (by pushing button) accepts specific client
Client receives onAccept event
Implement your game logic here, where both clients and server can call methods on all devices or on one specific device in the network
When one of the clients becomes unreachable, all clients and server get onClientClose event
When server becomes unreachable, all clients get onServerClose event
When you are finished, close client or server using close method, which stops all timers, closes all connections and destroys instance

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