NetXEngine - NXEngine-evo with online multiplayer

It's not incredibly far in, but I'm confident enough in what I've made to show it off.

Enemies aren't synced yet, but TSC events, players, and player shots are.
Planned features include: full save data syncing (not writing to file), joining mid-game, fully synced enemies and bosses, different player skins, and an easily moddable API for other mod creators to easily sync their custom content.
Also shoutouts to @root as he's gonna be helping me out in making this

 

That looks promising.
Do you plan to merge it back to nxengine-evo?

 

As cool as that'd be, it may not be the best idea as it only supports Windows. Adding Linux support wouldn't be impossible but if it were to happen it probably wouldn't be until after the game is fully synced on Windows, and Mac has a 0% chance of ever happening. Unless you'd be cool with networking features being disabled on Mac (and for a while, Linux), as well as big endian machines, then it may happen in the future once it's a bit more functional.

 

It's not incredibly far in, but I'm confident enough in what I've made to show it off.

Enemies aren't synced yet, but TSC events, players, and player shots are.
Planned features include: full save data syncing (not writing to file), joining mid-game, fully synced enemies and bosses, different player skins, and an easily moddable API for other mod creators to easily sync their custom content.
Also shoutouts to root as he's gonna be helping me out in making this

Do you know how far away a release could be?

 

Optimistically I'm hoping a release could happen with up to at least Egg Corridor playable in about 2 weeks. Could take longer if I wind up unexpectedly busy, though

 

Optimistically I'm hoping a release could happen with up to at least Egg Corridor playable in about 2 weeks. Could take longer if I wind up unexpectedly busy, though

Gotcha

 

As cool as that'd be, it may not be the best idea as it only supports Windows. Adding Linux support wouldn't be impossible but if it were to happen it probably wouldn't be until after the game is fully synced on Windows, and Mac has a 0% chance of ever happening. Unless you'd be cool with networking features being disabled on Mac (and for a while, Linux), as well as big endian machines, then it may happen in the future once it's a bit more functional.

I'm fairly confident i'll have no trouble porting to linux and osx.

 

Honestly I don't think this should be in the original nxengine-evo, or if it is it should be in an ifdef so it can easily be removed.

 

How about an option in settings?

 

As cool as that'd be, it may not be the best idea as it only supports Windows. Adding Linux support wouldn't be impossible but if it were to happen it probably wouldn't be until after the game is fully synced on Windows, and Mac has a 0% chance of ever happening. Unless you'd be cool with networking features being disabled on Mac (and for a while, Linux), as well as big endian machines, then it may happen in the future once it's a bit more functional.

Big endian machines like what, the atari Jaguar?

 

ARM devices mostly, which could be big endian while also running Linux.

 

How about an option in settings?

Sure, but an ifdef would still be good to easily remove all the code from the exe.

 

ARM devices mostly, which could be big endian while also running Linux.

They could, but in reality nobody uses BE on them.
I'm not even sure stock nxengine-evo works on BE. Never bothered to try/port.

 

Things are going along pretty smoothly. Still a few things to iron out and features to add but you can see here that Root and I can complete Egg Corridor perfectly fine. I'm functioning as the client in this video, which will give you an idea of how it'll look and play to a client. Root might post his footage he took of the session here too, to show what it was like as the host. (But that's up to him)

 

^ How it looked on my side.

 

Although so far it looks like a near one-to-one recreation.
Although, I would advise against releasing the engine with Cave Story+ music. If you don't get sued by NiCALiS, you'll probably end up being lampooned by the CSTSF community. That said, I don't know of any Organya DLL besides that one for Winamp that someone made a long time ago.

What the hell are you even talking about?
You do realize that it's nxengine fork (with netplay support), which, in turn, always supported org music, never distributed cs+ content and strives to be accurate recreation of original engine?
(And it does support cs+ music, but you need to own the game and copy music yourself)

 

Yacker added player skins (not custom, sorry) and I added chat.
We're also planning to release a demo of First Cave-Egg Corridor (and host a server) on Saturday!

 

Created a Discord where it'll be releasing and the beta test will be held. If you'd like to participate - or just follow development in general - you should join it!
https://discord.gg/dxVUu6E