Appwarp Cloud Number of Calls

Question

It seems that billing for AppWarp is based on the number of calls to the cloud. Not on the number of  concurrent players. So before I star, I was wondering how many calls per second is each player going to make to the AppWarp Cloud?

Answer 1

Hi - details of how billing messages are counted is explained in the following link

http://appwarp.shephertz.com/game-development-center/basic-concepts/#appwarp-billing

Comments

I guess the question I am asking is how many time per second would the 5 calls Quoted below be made?

"Lets take an example of a 3 player game room with players A, B and C in it. Now if player A sends an updatePeers request to the room, the following messages are counted –

->Request from A to the server (1 message)
->Response from server back to A (1 message)
-> onUpdatePeersRecieved notification to all 3 players in the room from the server (3 messages)

Hence a total of 5 messages."

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Thats upto the application developer. Each application has its own logic and exchanges messages at a different rate. For example consider the 2 android games that we have in our samples here

http://appwarp.shephertz.com/game-development-center/android-game-developers-home/

The Fruity Monster sample will send a message from a user only when the player taps on the screen to make the monster move. It just informs other players about the final position of the monster and not a frame by frame update.

In the UDP based multiplayer game sample however each player sends an update regarding its position at a high fixed rate irrespective of the user interaction.

So its up to the scenario that you are developing and how you achieve it.