Multi-player Help

Hello Good people.

I want to create a multi playergame with pre-registered users on my site. The game should pair users based on unique rooms.

e.g. 2 Players (PlayerA and PlayerB) will be matched together not automatically but because their urls share the same room (Room120a)

http://game-url/?room=Room120a&user=101&nick=JohnD

http://game-url/?room=Room120a&user=102&nick=KenS

How do I read this extensions on a sent URL?

The Browser object has a URL expression that will return the current URL. You can then parse out the room number with tokenat, and use that to join a room.

The Browser object has a URL expression that will return the current URL. You can then parse out the room number with tokenat, and use that to join a room.

Is it possible to pass a string like this "http://game-url/?room=Room120a&user=101&nick=JohnD" when launching a game from a web page?

Yes. Add the browser object, and get the URL via the browser.URL expression.

Yes. Add the browser object, and get the URL via the browser.URL expression.

Thanks.

It worked.

My problem is now security. In case someone decides to type the string into the browser address bar without registration on the sight first.

You would need some sort of verification system, which would be outside of the scope of the base functionality of C2, although there are many free third party plugins that allow for communication with other API's. An AJAX request to your webserver could be the most straightfoward solution, but it really depends on the method you want to use to verify the user.

My method may be crude, but I am writing a log file to the server anytime I call the game through the URL using the Room, ID and NickNames. I read the log file from my server with AJAX from within C2. If they match, game plays.