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function Server:update(dt)

self.server:send(function() -- the following should really be in a separate function but I put it here for easy reading (taken from BlackBullet below)
	local data = {}
	for n,p in pairs(self.player) do
		lube.bin:setseperators(string.char(1),string.char(2))
		data[n] = lube.bin:pack(p:getdata()) -- p:getdata() is where you return your x and y coords as a table
	end
	lube.bin:setseperators(string.char(30),string.char(31))
	local datatable = lube.bin:pack(data)
	return datatable
end)

end

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function Client.receive(data)

		lube.bin:setseperators(string.char(30),string.char(31))
		local datatable = lube.bin:unpack(data)
		local playertable = {}
                lube.bin:setseperators(string.char(1),string.char(2))
		for n,p in pairs(datatable) do			
			playertable[n] = lube.bin:unpack(p)
			if state.player[n] == nil then -- if player doesn't exist in the client table, then we need to make one
				state.player[n] = Player.create()
			end
			if n ~= state.index then -- otherwise we just update the coords
				state.player[n]:setdata(playertable[n]) -- setdata() function the exact opposite of getdata() we saw earlier
			end
		end	
end

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self.server:send(function()
	local data = {}
	for n,p in pairs(self.player) do
		lube.bin:setseperators(string.char(1),string.char(2))
		data[n] = lube.bin:pack(p:getdata()) -- p:getdata() is where you return your x and y coords as a table
	end
	lube.bin:setseperators(string.char(30),string.char(31))
	local datatable = lube.bin:pack(data)
	return datatable
end)

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connected = {
    {10, 10},
    {20, 20}
}

function send()
	lube.bin:setseperators(string.char(30),string.char(31))
	local data = lube.bin:pack( connected )
	server:send(data)
end