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Hi guys I saw posts like posting online scores and chatroom all through dropbox

and If a message can go to another computer. Can you maybe play a game.

I tried that with Game A Gogo some time ago. While possible, it was painfully slow. The delay was about 20 seconds.
It's not good for any realtime games, but could be used to create a turn based game.

lcl wrote:I tried that with Game A Gogo some time ago. While possible, it was painfully slow. The delay was about 20 seconds.
It's not good for any realtime games, but could be used to create a turn based game.

do you still have that ged. I would like to see it

It's not about the ged. All one has to do, is to have the game in the dropbox folder, and use saveVars and loadVars or other file i/o functions to transfer the data.
Both players open the same executable and save and load from the same file.

lcl wrote:It's not about the ged. All one has to do, is to have the game in the dropbox folder, and use saveVars and loadVars or other file i/o functions to transfer the data.
Both players open the same executable and save and load from the same file.

ok then I will have a go at this

Forgot to mention, there's one more thing.. You have to make sure that only one player is accessing the save data file at a time, otherwise the other players editions to the file (their game progress/movements/whatever) won't be saved.
As long as that is taken care of, it shouldn't be too difficult. And I can help you if you need help.

lcl wrote:Forgot to mention, there's one more thing.. You have to make sure that only one player is accessing the save data file at a time, otherwise the other players editions to the file (their game progress/movements/whatever) won't be saved.
As long as that is taken care of, it shouldn't be too difficult. And I can help you if you need help.

Ok thanks I'll remember that

Do you think you could like show me a way to do this????? Cruz I like want to be able to make an online scoreboard system for the high scores. But I don't understand a thing about the save thing.

Anything like an online scoreboard wouldn't really be viable through dropbox. You see, dropbox requires two people to link a folder through their software for the original setup to work (when a file is modified on one person's computer, transfer the changes to the linked persons' computers). Dropbox is a personal thing, and it would be near impossible to get multiple people to set one up for a game. An online scoreboard more so.
Basically, I don't suggest you try to do this as a way to get multiplayer in your games.

Damnit. You have any idea at all how I could?

LeeFesler wrote:Damnit. You have any idea at all how I could?

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