Qasibr
07-06-2009, 12:20 PM
Hey,
I'm thinking about making a multiplayer Flash game as a Univ project, using Flash Media Server as the back-end server-side tech. I'm fairly proficient at Flash, have been using it from time to time since Flash 5. I've made database driven stuff with Flash frontends and Asp.NET on the server end. Have never used FMS though.
The reason I'm even considering FMS, is that I need socket connectivity in the game, to connect all players and facilitate in-game interaction. Don't want to resort to polling each user. My concern is, is FMS actually a complete server-side stack that lets you code in server-side game logic(stuff like which events to broadcast to which connected players, etc), write data to text or xml files on the server, and maybe read/write things from MS Access .mdb files? Reading about FMS, some people make it sound like something that just streams video.
Thanks!
I'm thinking about making a multiplayer Flash game as a Univ project, using Flash Media Server as the back-end server-side tech. I'm fairly proficient at Flash, have been using it from time to time since Flash 5. I've made database driven stuff with Flash frontends and Asp.NET on the server end. Have never used FMS though.
The reason I'm even considering FMS, is that I need socket connectivity in the game, to connect all players and facilitate in-game interaction. Don't want to resort to polling each user. My concern is, is FMS actually a complete server-side stack that lets you code in server-side game logic(stuff like which events to broadcast to which connected players, etc), write data to text or xml files on the server, and maybe read/write things from MS Access .mdb files? Reading about FMS, some people make it sound like something that just streams video.
Thanks!