Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:37 am
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Re: Simple mutltiplayer pong
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:07 am
Awesome work!
Re: Simple mutltiplayer pong
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:39 am
Is this Windows only? There are EXE files in here! That's so disappointing. I was hoping to try it on OS X because I could never get that Volleyball game to work at all and wanted something simpler to dissect. (Because I still don't understand how networking works!)
Re: Simple mutltiplayer pong
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:55 am
You know, you can see contents of LOVE .exe's? Right?Jasoco wrote:Is this Windows only? There are EXE files in here! That's so disappointing. I was hoping to try it on OS X because I could never get that Volleyball game to work at all and wanted something simpler to dissect. (Because I still don't understand how networking works!)
Re: Simple mutltiplayer pong
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:44 pm
None of the EXE's are archives. At least according to my Unarchiver application. The initial ZIP file has the following in it...Davidobot wrote:You know, you can see contents of LOVE .exe's? Right?Jasoco wrote:Is this Windows only? There are EXE files in here! That's so disappointing. I was hoping to try it on OS X because I could never get that Volleyball game to work at all and wanted something simpler to dissect. (Because I still don't understand how networking works!)
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au3 sauce
Pong.au3
Pongserver.au3
conf.lua
data
ball.png
bar.png
DevIL.dll
engine.exe
main.lua
OpenAL32.dll
Pong.exe
PongServer.exe
SDL.dllThe problem is that there is no documentation for non-Windows users about how to use this because there's so many unneeded files in there that only Windows users will need. Does this game need the EXE's? Why did they need to be included if not? Could this have just been uploaded as a .love file or two instead?
Just trying to help actually.
Re: Simple mutltiplayer pong
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:00 am
Woops... yeah sorry, forgot about documentation. This is windows only, unless mac has a wine like program, because the server was written in a windows only language. PongServer.exe is the server obviously, Pong.exe is a simple cmd command OSV() being either the 64bit program files or 32. but as far as I know the game doesn't work without connecting to an online server. au3 sauce is the source code to the server and pong. I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone else has.
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start "" "C:\' & OSV() & '\LOVE\love.exe" .'Re: Simple mutltiplayer pong
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:53 am
That's a shame. I mean couldn't the same functionality have been written in Löve?
Re: Simple mutltiplayer pong
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 3:43 am
In theory 
, I wanted to challenge myself so I wrote both parts in different languages, I could attempt to code it in lua, if you really want to try it. I don't really see why you would but meh everyone is entitled to there own opinion.
PS Whats with the "obey" thing? Is it an inside joke or something?
, I wanted to challenge myself so I wrote both parts in different languages, I could attempt to code it in lua, if you really want to try it. I don't really see why you would but meh everyone is entitled to there own opinion.PS Whats with the "obey" thing? Is it an inside joke or something?
Re: Simple mutltiplayer pong
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:12 am
Well, on Windows, you can open up LOVE .exes as archives.Jasoco wrote:None of the EXE's are archives. At least according to my Unarchiver application. The initial ZIP file has the following in it...Davidobot wrote:You know, you can see contents of LOVE .exe's? Right?Jasoco wrote:Is this Windows only? There are EXE files in here! That's so disappointing. I was hoping to try it on OS X because I could never get that Volleyball game to work at all and wanted something simpler to dissect. (Because I still don't understand how networking works!)The EXE files aren't archives and they obviously only run on Windows. There are LUA files in there but are they standalone? Can they be run by themselves? What does Pong.exe and Pongserver.exe do that the normal .lua files don't? Obviously the DLL's belong to ENGINE.exe which I assume is Löve itself.Code: Select all
au3 sauce Pong.au3 Pongserver.au3 conf.lua data ball.png bar.png DevIL.dll engine.exe main.lua OpenAL32.dll Pong.exe PongServer.exe SDL.dll
The problem is that there is no documentation for non-Windows users about how to use this because there's so many unneeded files in there that only Windows users will need. Does this game need the EXE's? Why did they need to be included if not? Could this have just been uploaded as a .love file or two instead?
Just trying to help actually.
Re: Simple mutltiplayer pong
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:00 am
Well but you know, your initial comment was hasty. It's only need to look to this screenshotDavidobot wrote: You know, you can see contents of LOVE .exe's? Right?
Well, on Windows, you can open up LOVE .exes as archives.
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Jasoco, could be worst. You at least have the server/client code source in available in that Autoit (script language that I never heard before). If you are really interested in ou can dissect that. Maybe romaniamiam is willing to rewrite it in some other cross-platform script language.