Comments on: Networking for VectorStorm http://www.vectorstorm.org/2008/04/19/networking-for-vectorstorm/ Creating games, one brightly glowing line at a time. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:47:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: trevor http://www.vectorstorm.org/2008/04/19/networking-for-vectorstorm/comment-page-1/#comment-35 trevor Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:22:12 +0000 http://www.vectorstorm.org/?p=133#comment-35 It could certainly automatically create leaderboards for modified game executables; it'd work in a similar manner to how their matchmaking would work. The only issue is just one of server-side data storage, and whether I can ever throw old data away. I can see lots of old data from development periods hanging around if people do experiment with modifying games. Maybe I can put a "one week" or "one month" duration on the leaderboard data, so that I can automatically throw it away after a while. This is all still a few months off in the future, probably. I'm poking more with the murder mystery game right now, and I don't really see that networking would really improve that game. It could certainly automatically create leaderboards for modified game executables; it’d work in a similar manner to how their matchmaking would work.

The only issue is just one of server-side data storage, and whether I can ever throw old data away. I can see lots of old data from development periods hanging around if people do experiment with modifying games. Maybe I can put a “one week” or “one month” duration on the leaderboard data, so that I can automatically throw it away after a while.

This is all still a few months off in the future, probably. I’m poking more with the murder mystery game right now, and I don’t really see that networking would really improve that game.

]]> By: Liam http://www.vectorstorm.org/2008/04/19/networking-for-vectorstorm/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Liam Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:05:28 +0000 http://www.vectorstorm.org/?p=133#comment-34 Could the game work out a checksum of the significant files and send that as part of an identifier, thus potentially allowing a leaderboard to be shared for identically modded games alongside the primary release? Could the game work out a checksum of the significant files and send that as part of an identifier, thus potentially allowing a leaderboard to be shared for identically modded games alongside the primary release?

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