Elysian Shadows

This forum surely has seen its better days, was just checking in to see how things were coming and if a beta was coming soon. Can't wait to get my hands on it

I thought that was a known fact. Your explanation is almost true, but things are much messier than that. Your solution, though, was correct: just use multiple processes instead of multiple threads. Python's stdlib makes it relatively easy to move from one to the other. If you are really curious, th...

This is my story of learning the hard way that python threading blows, and that its (almost) completely useless.. About 5 months ago I was hired into a crypto exchange, a fairly large one. ( cryptsy.com ) And we got to work on a new cloud mining thing that was real. ( mintsy.co ) ( Majority of 'clou...

A lot of games sends structures instead of formats, it looks like this : struct PlayerStartedMoving { char type;// without this server couldn't recognize what structure are we sending. char dir; } struct PlayerStopped { char type; short XPos; short YPos; } ... if( player_pressed_a_key_and_is_able_t...

Well, it depends what kind of multiplayer you are developing. If you'd like to do mmo then it would be near impossible to send all the packets for every player to every other player and so forth. This is why you'd send the data to the server. And the server sends the necessary data back. With a 2 pl...