Hey!

I want to release my game on Steam soon and though about how to check if the player bought a DLC.

The DLC would be integrated in the base game and just activated after it is purchased. The official greenworks Add-On only provides access to the overlay and achievements, but not to DLCs.

Thanks in advance

Oh yes, true.

Your current health is global and does not work separate for the enemies.

It is one number in the whole game instead of one number per enemy.

Thank you, that explains a lot. I used numbers like 1001,1002 etc to have a bit more clarity... Well.

I have some very strong sync issues late in the game (5 min+), and I think that's because of the enemies.

My game is 1vs1 and both player get their own minion things every few seconds.

Right now I am synchronizing them by storing E.g. P1 minions values all into one array and then sending it to p2 every tick, same for p2 minions.

This way they can compare their ID with that from the array and set their position+health etc.

Is there something more efficient? I just can't get the game to work 100% properly, it always starts bugging around sooner or later, even when reducing it to every 0.25 sec instead of every tick.

You should probably put "for each enemy" in there, so it checks for every enemy if the health is less or equal 0.

ThePhotons

I fixed the issue with my game's browser version not working!

The "protocol" was set to ws and not to wss... Just found out while browsing this forum. When should I use ws and when wss? Can I just let it at wss, or are there certain exports that are not compatible?

Another small question:

When I used high code numbers in the "raise event" like 2000+, the events would not be called at all. Is there a pattern, or should I use the lowest amount of numbers?

Also, is it better to use many raise events for different things, or should I use only one or two raise events, that store most of the data in them?

Hey!

I am currently working on an online Game and want the player to always have the newest version. I already added a version check via AJAX, so that the game compares the current game version with the content of a text file I uploaded. (which I just need to edit).

The game also gives the player a direct link to my itch.io page to download the new version... but that's not the most elegant way of doing it.

Do you know of any tool, that can patch a game? E.g. Steam and Play Store can do it, but I don't want to invest 100€ to Steam right now.

What I could imagine: The player downloads the patcher program, which is directly combined with my game. The patcher is connected via GitHub and automatically updates the player's game data, without him needing to log in to anywhere.

ThePhotons

Sadly there aren't any error. The game just does not connect to the server at all, neither on start of layout nor manually.

I do use AJAX to reach a file via a weblink and that works fine, though. Going to make some testing the next days. Does the Java script minifier has anything to do with it? I didn't use it.