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Published inJun 2013
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 Artur Moreira
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Artur Moreira

Artur Moreira is a game development enthusiast who ultimately aims to start a new game development company in his home country. He has been programming games and game-related software for over 4 years. Most of the effort in that time was put in creating an open source game-making library with lots of flexibility and portability. The library is called Nephilim and is known for supporting all major desktop and mobile operating systems, making game development fully crossplatform and fast. Alongside this big project, he keeps making his own prototypes and games for educational and commercial purposes. Aside from the programming, he also puts some focus in creative areas such as 3D modeling, digital painting, and music composing.
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 Henrik Vogelius Hansson
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Henrik Vogelius Hansson

Henrik Vogelius Hansson has always been in love with both games and programming. He started his education fairly early and continued on into the indie scene with Defrost Games and their game Project Temporality. The next company that hired him was Paradox Development Studio where he got to work on titles such as Crusader Kings 2. Beside the game companies, Henrik has also been very active in the SFML community and has even provided a binding for Ruby called rbSFML.
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Creating the structure for multiplayer


You must be fed up with networking theory by now, and you actually want to see some code! Right, it is now time to start the concrete implementation of our game server.

In order to extend our game and add an online mode to it, we went ahead and created a new state MultiplayerGameState, which is very similar to GameState at first. In the following code snippet, you see the important parts of the class definition. As you see, the three typical state-related methods to draw, update, and handle events are again there, as well as the variables for the world, window, and texture holder. Several variables are new related to the management of different players and socket connections:

class MultiplayerGameState : public State
{
    public:
                         MultiplayerGameState(StateStack& stack,Context context, bool isHost);

        virtual void     draw();
        virtual bool     update(sf::Time dt);
        virtual bool     handleEvent(const sf...
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Published in: Jun 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849696845

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Artur Moreira

Artur Moreira is a game development enthusiast who ultimately aims to start a new game development company in his home country. He has been programming games and game-related software for over 4 years. Most of the effort in that time was put in creating an open source game-making library with lots of flexibility and portability. The library is called Nephilim and is known for supporting all major desktop and mobile operating systems, making game development fully crossplatform and fast. Alongside this big project, he keeps making his own prototypes and games for educational and commercial purposes. Aside from the programming, he also puts some focus in creative areas such as 3D modeling, digital painting, and music composing.
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Henrik Vogelius Hansson

Henrik Vogelius Hansson has always been in love with both games and programming. He started his education fairly early and continued on into the indie scene with Defrost Games and their game Project Temporality. The next company that hired him was Paradox Development Studio where he got to work on titles such as Crusader Kings 2. Beside the game companies, Henrik has also been very active in the SFML community and has even provided a binding for Ruby called rbSFML.
Read more about Henrik Vogelius Hansson