Multiplayer with Lua

[Atmosaero]

Is it currently possible to create a multiplayer game using Lua?

[Leag]

You should be able to make it with Steamworks

https://www.ultraengine.com/learn/Steamworks?lang=lua

[Canardia]

Yes, you can use the Steam API in Ultra with Lua, with it you can send and receive any data between players or server:
https://www.ultraengine.com/learn/Steamworks_CreateLobby?lang=lua

[Dexter]

Beware steamworks lobby is P2P only. This made me curious about something else tho, it appears lua's require doesnt work? I was trying it with enet, eg `require "enet"` and it blows up. If require isnt working, that would be nice to become available so the reams of existing solutions (eg, love community) could be used

 

I did look at the Plugin architecture but that looks unrelated

[Josh]

2 hours ago, Dexter said:

Beware steamworks lobby is P2P only. This made me curious about something else tho, it appears lua's require doesnt work? I was trying it with enet, eg `require "enet"` and it blows up. If require isnt working, that would be nice to become available so the reams of existing solutions (eg, love community) could be used

I did look at the Plugin architecture but that looks unrelated

Lua DLL modules need to be placed in the /Modules folder. Lua code file modules should be placed in /Source.

Enet is nice to use but it doesn't support NAT punch-through, so it might not be very useful for modern networked games.

The P2P system is pretty nice because when the lobby owner leaves, ownership gets transferred to another player. This acts like a dedicated server without needing to program and maintain one.

[Dexter]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Lua DLL modules need to be placed in the /Modules folder. Lua code file modules should be placed in /Source.

Enet is nice to use but it doesn't support NAT punch-through, so it might not be very useful for modern networked games.

The P2P system is pretty nice because when the lobby owner leaves, ownership gets transferred to another player. This acts like a dedicated server without needing to program and maintain one.

ahh great, I had dlls next to exe, thanks. Fair point on ENet, just throwing out there are alternatives