I’ve had a debate with a co-worker over what solution to use for a real time multiplayer game. We’re about to start a two player fighting game, a basic version of capcom’s street fighter. You’ll be able to setup and host a game, join a game, view your scores and so on all this in real time.
basic spec:
-health bar
-power bar (for special moves etc)
-ground/air combos
-ground blocking
-3 punch attacks (low/medium/high)
-3 kick attacks (low/medium/high)
-special moves
This is not a turn-based game, its a full on real time fighting style game where two players beatup each other at the same time.
We have FMS (flash media server) at our disposal. He says that FMS sharedObject would be able to handle this. I think maybe it will, but would have some limitations with the number of conccurent games. I suggested a socket based solution. Either built inhouse using java/c#/php. Or just going with something like smartFoxServer.
One of the java socket examples with as3: LINK
So baring in mind that we have access to FMS (300 connections I believe) what would you go with?
