Scratch

Alright, I know I'm going to sound a little like I'm crazy, but please don't stop reading this post. For those of you that have ever read the pages on the scratch wiki about communicating to scratch with other programs, this will make a little more sense.
Basically, I've written a special client program in flash, which is based on the actionscript remote sensors tutorial (see http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Commun … tionscript). You'll need to understand network programming first, though. The client has special code written on it which connects to scratch and a server at a specific IP and port. It forwards all packets coming from the server to the sensor variable, packet, and anything scratch puts in the variable packet, gets sent to the server as a packet.
The server is written in C and the client and the server will be open-sourced. The server has a very specific format on how to write handler functions, but if you write them correctly, you can extend the capabilities of my server that are already written, to make an even better MMORPG. However, you will need to have some C knowledge to write code for it. (get a book. look up online tutorials, whatever) You will also need to know about MySQL, as my MMO uses it.

Enough with the chit chat. Let me explain how MMO writing would work.

First, you would make your project. (duh) You would make two variables called packet, and inpacket. Also, create a when I receive block whose message would be dataready. Inside of it you would set inpacket to the packet sensor value.

Now that you got your MMO specific stuff ready, it's time to start coding your game. First, we need to be able to parse the message. Below is a reference of the different handlers and the packets to which they can send and receive.

All packets except for one packet follows a specific pattern. Category / Function / Arguments /. Each argument it followed by a slash. Let me explain a little more, if that didn't make sense to you. For example, let's say you want to login with the username scratch and the password cat. First, you need to look for handleLogin in the lists below. Go look for it now. Then, you'll find out that it is a general function, whose identifier is l. If you look in the categories list, you'll find out the general functions have the identifier s. If you go back to handleLogin, you'll find out that it's arguments are username and password. If you put this all together, the packet to login with the username scratch and the password cat would be s/l/scratch/cat/ If you look back, you can also find out that it will give you s/l/1 if it was successful, and s/l/0 if it wasn't. Does that make any sense to you? I hope so.

BETA TESTING

For those of you who would like to beta test, I have a requirement for you. Post here all of the programming languages (scratch counts) that you are very, very good in.  If I think you qualify, I'll get you a download link.

Once it is fully stable and complete, I'll open-source it to the public.

EDIT: Open Sourced, see below.


Progress
Client - 5%
Server - 100%
Examples - 30%

Categories
General - Identifier s

General functions
handleLogin - Identifier l - arguments: username, password - s/l/1/ on success, s/l/0 on failure - stable
handleJoinRoom - Identifier jr - arguments: room id - no return - stable
handleGetRoom - Identifier gr - arguments: none - ret/roomid/ - stable
handleGetPlayersInRoom - Identifier gpr - arguments: room id - ret/numberOfPlayersInRoom/playerIdsSeperatedBySlashes - stable

Staff List (in list of importance/seniority)
Owners
bobbybee

Programmers
bobbybee
Necromaster
cocolover76

Testing
bobbybee
Zeusking19
midnightleopard
Magnie
Dinoclor
cocolover76


OPEN SOURCED
Click on the website above for more info, source code, and installation instructions, for both Windows and Mac.

Installation Methods
I am a..... a game developer who is willing to spend a fortune.
1) Download Adobe Flash Professional from the Adobe website.
2) Download the non-mysql version from the site above.
3) Open terminal/cygwin and cd into the directory that you extracted FireMMO into.
4) Type gcc -pthread -o server handlers.c main.c
5) Type ./server
6) Open the .fla file in FireMMO with Adobe Flash Professional.
7) Change the server variable to your ip address.
8) Change the serverport variable to 7070.
9) Press Control (command for mac) and enter at the same time.
10) Run an example located on the website.
11) Have Fun! (and make an MMO, of course)

I am a..... a game developer who does not want to spend a penny
1) Download Adobe Flex SDK from the Adobe website.
2) Download the non-mysql version from the site above.
3) Open terminal/cygwin, and cd into the directory that you extracted FireMMO into.
4) Type gcc -pthread -o server handlers.c main.c
5) Type ./server
6) Download the Flex Client from the site above.
7) Move the flex client to the location that you extracted flex into, then to sdks, then to 3.*.*, then to bin.
8) Open clientmmo.as in a text editor of your choice.
9) Change the server variable to your ip address.
10) Change the serverport variable to 7070.
11) Type ./mxmlc clientmmo.as
12) Open clientmmo.swf
13) Run an example located on the website.
14) Have Fun! (and make an MMO, of course)

I am a..... a player who would like to compile my own client.
1) Download Adobe Flex SDK from the Adobe website.
2) Download the Flex Client from the site above.
3) Move the flex client to the location that you extracted flex into, then to sdks, then to 3.*.*, then to bin.
4) Open clientmmo.as in a text editor of your choice.
5) Change the server variable to your ip address.
6) Change the serverport variable to 7070.
7) Type ./mxmlc clientmmo.as
8) Open clientmmo.swf
9) Have Fun! (and play an MMO, of course)

Last edited by bobbybee (2012-04-12 17:19:29)