Desenvolvimento de uma ferramenta de comunicação em rede P2P para jogos multiplayer em Flash

Abstract

Multiplayer functionality in games is becoming very usual. It increases the complexity of game creation projects as in. The game producer Decadium Studios, that creates games with that functionality, makes investments as to solve problems of communication in games. Alongside with Decadium, this project developed a tool that organizes rooms for multiplayer matches and resolves communications during the game without the need of a dedicated server. This network communication tool was created for games already made and also for future projects of Decadium Studios. This paper's tool was developed using Action Script 3.0 and as such must be integrated in games developed in the proprietary tool Adobe Flash. Aiming to reuse its games, the company developed a library named Simskeleton with codes that are common to all their Flash based projects. Present games of the company that have a multiplayer mode are dependants of a SmartFox server. As the server is not owned by the company, but by one of the many costumers it has, this project tries to bring a solution to this matter. The tool was created to be integrated to Simskeleton and to other projects that don't use the library, so that they can communicate Point-to-Point (P2P) without the need of a server for information exchange between different instances of the same game.