Multiplayer Lan Flash Game?

[Yashv1r]

wazup, is it possible to create a Multiplayer flash LAN Game???

Example: pac man. One player is pacman, one is a badguy. Movement vars are sent via php to be written to a file, (the hub of everyones position) and then read back into pacmans screen to update the badguys position. Of course Im sure there must be a better or rational way about going about it, thats where you come in..can u help???

Thanks in advance!
yash
www.holografik.co.za

[criticalhammer1]

its definately posssible over a server but Im not sure flash can use LAN

[GustTheASGuy]

You'll have to write a backend for Flash to do the LAN communication. It's kind of advanced so you might want to go for a public server. Though that's also advanced. But don't do that with PHP, that's impossibly slow.

[WolfAkela]

Iirc, won't Adobe Air support it?

The only "local multiplayer" Flash can do is on one computer running multiple SWFs.

[henke37]

You want the Socket class. Just design a protocol on top of TCP and you can have multiplayer, both online and on LANs. Of course, Flash does not do listening sockets, so you have to use a separate process for that, but if you are even remotely capable of the Flash part, a separate process in another programing language should be easy to do. But with a special embeding solution, you could have the server and the flash player in the same process, but that is a bit overkill.