Some questions regarding turn based games

Question

Hi,

 

A couple questions related to turn based games:

1. Is it possible to create a turnRoom in the management console or its only possible using the SDK?

2. In general, what is the best practice? To hold a list of fixed rooms in the management console or create rooms dynamically via the API?

3. If the answer for 2 is to create rooms dynamically, I guess a lot of developers implement their own UI for displaying the available rooms. Is there a basic/recommended UI somewhere that I can use in my app? (Windows Phone 8).

4. Is there a built in API for requesting a rematch when a game ends?

 

Thanks!!!

Noam

Answer 1

Have you gone through the following? It answers your questions on rooms

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

In most casees people just use dynamic rooms. I think static rooms are only for chat room applications or if you're making a small virtual world sort of application.

Showing a list of rooms is not very beneficial in most cases. In most cases - players just want to start playing and using the matchmaking APIs is the best way to do that. I read the following posts in my case.

http://blogs.shephertz.com/2013/11/13/process-of-matchmaking-with-known-user-and-random-user-on-appwarp/

http://blogs.shephertz.com/2013/11/11/tutorial-to-make-multiplayer-games-in-windows-phone-with-appwarp/

Comments

Thanks for the links.
I agree that we shouldn't bother the user with rooms/lobbies etc' - so the matchmaking API is actually to join a room with the isPrivateRoom property? this property makes it act as "matchmaking"?


What about rematches?

Thanks!!
Noam

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That is a way of doing it if you want to play with a particular player. You can build your own logic as well (property based or number of user based).

http://appwarp.shephertz.com/game-development-center/matchmaking-basic-concept/

The following sample does matchmaking based on number of players

http://appwarp.shephertz.com/game-development-center/Cocos2d-xna-multiplayer-tutorial/
http://appwarp.shephertz.com/game-development-center/java-multiplayer-libgdx-tutorial/

There is NO "rematch" API. You can use the start/stop APIs to perhaps simulate the same.

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Hi,

I've done everything as in the tutorial - I try to join a room after connected, and if there's no room exists - I create a new one. Only that I get to API callback after creating a new room. I think I should have gotten onSubscribeRoomDone?

Here's the code:
        public void onConnectDone(ConnectEvent eventObj)
        {
            if (eventObj.getResult() == WarpResponseResultCode.SUCCESS)
            {
                // Successfully connected to the server. Lets go ahead and join the room.
                WarpClient.GetInstance().JoinRoomInRange(1, 1, true);
            }
            else
            {
                m_onlinePage.showResult("connection failed");
            }
        }

        public void onJoinRoomDone(RoomEvent eventObj)
        {
            if (eventObj.getResult() == WarpResponseResultCode.SUCCESS)
            {
                string gameRoomId = eventObj.getData().getId();
                WarpClient.GetInstance().SubscribeRoom(gameRoomId);
            }
            else
            {
                // Room not found. creating one
                WarpClient.GetInstance().createTurnRoom("Room", "a", 2, null, 10000);
            }
        }

The code triggers the call "JoinRoomInRange(1, 1, true);" but I'm not getting any callback...

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You'll get the onCreateRoomDone callback in your ZoneRequestListener. See how its done in
https://github.com/DhruvCShepHertz/XamarinMultiplayerBananas/blob/master/GoneBananas/iOS/GoneBananas/GameStartLayer.cs

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Oh, that's working. Great!
The API is bit confusing as I was waiting on my NotificationListener on method "onRoomCreated".

I'll keep follow this example.