The purpose of this project was to create a one-to-four player game, using a client/server architecture. Peer-to-peer communication was not allowed.
mkdir build && cd build && conan install .. --build=missing && cmake
.. -G “Unix Makefiles” && cmake --build .For Windows, it generate a Visual Studio solution file
We have designed a binary protocol for client/server communications. We used UDP for communications between the server and the clients. A second connection using TCP have been tolerated but we had to provide a quite strong justification. In any event, ALL in-game communications had to use UDP.
- SFML on the client side
- Sockets from scratch for the server (No BOOST lib)
Your engine will be reviewed and we will focus on the following points:
- Runtime extensibility: the ability to add systems to a game through the form of dynamic libraries, scripts...
- Compile-time safety: if your engine provides no type-safety at compile-time, using it may lead to code that’s unclear
- Ease of use: when encountering your engine for the first time, how easy is it to create a simple game like Snake?