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Oct 12th, 2003, 02:51 PM
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launch a multiplayer game
how would i launch a multiplayer game with vb? like how msn messenger does when you invite someone to play a game, or how gamespy does to launch games.
i wanna like let people connect to host like with winsock and then when the host has enough people connected, the host launches the game, but how can i launch a multiplayer game like quake with the clients that were connected to the host ealier in the vb app?
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Oct 14th, 2003, 08:13 PM
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Oct 14th, 2003, 08:45 PM
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YOu might want to look into something called DirectPlay.
It is in the VB Reference for the DirectX 8.0 API
This is what all the games like quake and Red Faction ect use to do there multiplayer networking.
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Oct 15th, 2003, 06:19 AM
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Oct 15th, 2003, 06:27 AM
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is there any help sites on how to use this or anything? and an example would be great.
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Oct 15th, 2003, 06:50 AM
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DirectPlay is only if you want to actually code a game yourself.
To launch the game you'd just use the Shell() statement, or the ShellExecute() API
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Oct 15th, 2003, 03:42 PM
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Originally posted by plenderj
DirectPlay is only if you want to actually code a game yourself.
To launch the game you'd just use the Shell() statement, or the ShellExecute() API
give me an example please.
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