network game help

[bladers]

well i want to make a network cilent where people connect to and play alot of diffrent games i make, well the games are gonna be in diffrent exe how can i get the cilent to interact with those games, its like www.zone.com
you go to a room then when its full, the host starts the game, well the title of the room is the title of the game there playing, help me please.


umm
Is there a way that i can make a chat Network like www.zone.com, and you can play several visual basic online games with it. stuff like tictactoe/ping pong. so the cilent with be comunicating with other VB projects(games).

[the182guy]

you can use the microsoft Winsock control to have your clients connect up to a chat server, and play games.

you will need to make the games yourself though, unless you can find the source of the game, because you will need to edit the game to implement the client which will connect to the server

[bladers]

you will need to make the games yourself though

I know, i will.

because you will need to edit the game to implement the client which will connect to the server

umm what do you mean by implement?like interact?

[the182guy]

I mean like, you will need to code it to connect up to the server, so it can join the chat & games etc. I think you would be best to start off by making the chat system, or start by making a small online game, maybe just a 1v1 tic tac toe to start off, so you get the idea of how it works.

you will need a vbapp for the client, which connects to the chat server to send / receive messages etc. and you will need the server vbapp which accepts connections and boradcasts the messages. for example...a client sends a chat message to the chat room, the server receives it and sends the message to every client so it appears in the chat window.

for this you will be best off using the Winsock Control, and if you have never used Winsock, you can learn pretty fast from this site:

www.winsockvb.com

you will find tutorials for apps like a simple 1to1 chat, all the way up to multiple file transfers. It is THE best site for winsock

[bladers]

i have the cilent/server ready
and i made a tic tac toe game.
so how can i communicate with the tictactoe.exe


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[Vegeta]

bladers:
So the users that want to play your games, need to download a client program, or will it work via HTTP and java oder flash?
Will you offer the communicating client as one seperate application and use the games like modules to download with the client?

[the182guy]

you should start small and build a simple 1 vs 1 tic tac toe connection, so you get the idea before you move on to a big project like that