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ubik74
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Hello
Just a quick question before starting new game
Wondering if coco is good framework builded for persistants games with ressources management like lords & knight, crime city, kingdome conquest, happy kingdom... where we have some technology tree and timing management to upgrade skills, recruit army etc etc.. so mmo system management ?
Thanks for reply :-)
Blue Ether
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I think what you're really looking for is something like SmartFox Server (SFS), which can be used in conjunction with Cocos2D. Cocos is primarily what you would call a game engine or a graphics engine+ or something. SFS is an API for managing online players, player communications, game rooms, actions, etc.
@BlueEther - Thanks for bringing up SmartFox. Hadn't spotted that before - may come in handy for future projects.
That SmartFox thing looks pretty cool. Although something to keep in mind it's just a network layer. You would still have to code all of your games infrastructure on top of it. It talked about using Java, not sure if it integrates with other languages.
The basic layering looks like it would be pretty solid though. Very similar to what we did (we rolled our own from scratch). Looks like it could be pretty solid with the fail over and load balancing.
Not too expensive either at 3500$ for unlimited, although that's a per server cost. So if you wanted unlimited for each of your boxes it could run up pretty fast in cost. Depends on the game though.
Good luck with whatever your choice, it's a long haul coding an MMO, but for a client side Cocos2d works quite well. We have been using it to code our client.
Blue Ether
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Yeah I've used SFS pretty extensively in the past. Most of your network code is written in something called "extensions." Extensions can be written in Java or their own "ActionScript" bastardization (which is more based on AS2 than AS3, although with less features than either). I always stuck to Java, and if your project has any complexity to it I would recommend you do too. There is a pretty good Objective C client API for SFS, really easy to integrate with a Cocos2D based game. They have APIs for other platforms as well which makes it really easy to have a multi-platform game where players on all platforms can communicate with one another seamlessly.
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