Re: FLASH: Multiplayer / multiuser appz in flash

[Jon Williams]

am I to assume that the combination of smiley and

shockwave link indicate that you recommend using

director?!


i am reminded of someone really bright saying

something to the effect of "we don't need generator." *grin*


jd, you and i both know that it IS possible to pass

"media" using the available multi-user flash techniques.

you just put single slices of media into their own swf

files and pass text thru the multiuser engine of choice

and have the movie on the other side do a loadmovie

call based on the text they recieve--effectively passing "media."

It's the same principle as DNS lookup really. What are

we talking in terms of performance difference v/s "true"

media sharing? 5% ?


peer-to-peer...i dunno...that's not really useful once you

go above 3 or 4 participants, but I'll grant you that it's

nice to be able to choose. scalability gets a thumbs up

of course, but what makes shockwave more scalable

than flash?


love to get your perspective on this, john. it should be

apparent by now that multi-user is a newfound thrill of mine.

I'm not exacly sure why I bother with the education side

sometimes. It just means that I get three more emails asking

for an instant messaging fla...*sigh*


MU is built out of sweat, ok? It doesn't matter what authoring

tool you use.


(Flash 5 will render some of this moot after a manner, but

it's not like mm is willing to talk turkey yet...)


-jon



John Dowdell wrote:


> At 1:31 AM 7/13/0, Webmaster wrote:

> > Can someone give me good examples (URLs) of multiuser applications done

> > in Flash? Games, chats, ... Did any of you made some multiuser apps?

>

> There's a rich-media Player that goes further.... ;-)

> http://poppy.macromedia.com/~sallen/multiuser/sites.htm

>

> (Background: Sending text back and forth is one thing, but sending media

> back and forth, peer networking, scalability are all additional needs.)

>

> jd

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