Devlog 2013-09-19

Here is a run down of the activities acheived this week on SurviveRL:

Network Server

The large part of the week was spent developing the UDP server further. The server has the following added:

• Server Tick (http://www.counter-strike.com/faqs/tickrate/)
• Message Types
• Simple Protocol
• Broadcast

The tickrate is set primarily to 1000/60 milliseconds, to simulate a 60 FPS cycle for processing. This is enough I think to assume, even though SurviveRL is a turn based game. Message types were created to distinguish from client connectivity and standard game packet messages, so that basic login housekeeping can be maintained on connected players.

A simple protocol header was done to allow for the various message types. I will rework this for ISO 7816 T=0 protocol later on. Aim still for v0.07a is simply to have 2 "@"s walking around the same screen from two separate clients.

Aim for next week is to make some sort of sequence diagram over the login procedure and implement it between the client and the server. If time is available, also to send player position messages when the player moves on the screen.


Ogg Support
I also spent a short amount of time on Ogg support for audio. I will be adding in background music in v0.07a also, but not sfx, which I expect to add in during a later release.