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Yadav Chetan
Yadav Chetan

Reputation: 1894

Which is best way to implement timer in turn based multiplayer game?

I am implementing multiplayer turn based game using Node.js for server side scripting. Game is just like monopoly where multiple room and single room have multiple players. I want to implement timer for all rooms, i have gone through many article, I have two options as follows:

1} I will emit with current time to each player at once and they will process timer and emit to server on turn or time up.

2} I may manage timer at server and emit at every second but it will create load to server, also confuse as Node.js is single threaded then how will i manage multiple setInterval() for multiple room. it will add in queue and will create latency.

So please assist me best option.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1395

Answers (1)

RamV13
RamV13

Reputation: 567

A hybrid approach may suit best for this problem. You could start, initially, by receiving the current value of the timer from the server. Subsequently, the clients can run the timer down independently without requesting the server for the current time. If accuracy is important to this project, then you can request the server every 15 seconds or so to adjust for time drift that may cause discrepancies between the server and its clients.

Also, note that even though Node.js is single threaded it is nonetheless inherently asynchronous.

Upvotes: 1

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