Network Game Discovery

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Authoritative Server

The ideal situation would to be have a set server that knows about all games and publishes info about them.

This isnt feasible in a lan situation as it would require user interaction which should be avoided.

Automatic LAN Discovery

  • Servers: Broadcast a message every 5 seconds to announce their presence on the announce port. Listen on a reply port for requests for server info.
  • Clients: Each client should bind to the chosen port and listen for incomming UDP announcements. A 'refresh' click will send out a broadcast packet on the reply port to 'force' servers to send new information, to that client only.

The discovery packet could include:

  • IP of Server (included as part of UDP)
  • Version of server
  • Name
  • Player count: current/max
  • Player List (seperated by ;)
  • Game Type
  • Scenario/ Map
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