At 9:31 AM -0500 12/20/04, LMSpam at neuropop dot com wrote:
so it sounds like you're recommending I write the server myself, and
simply access the database when a player initially signs up?
Yes. That's the traditional client/server model, anyway -- and the
server in this case means a custom app. The alternative, I suppose,
would be to make your app a peer-to-peer game, with the central
database used only to find the addresses of other machines which are
online. But that approach tends not to work well -- it's fine for a
handful of users, but as the number of users connected at once goes
up, the network traffic goes up exponentially.
Or maybe split the functionality? When a user initiates a search for
an artist or a funk/soul mate *that* function could still go to the
php/mySQL side, while the real-time servlet could keep track of
who's doing what and where and reporting out accordingly (Still on
port 80 perhaps???)
Yes, that's certainly a possibility.
Best,
- Joe
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