Ideas on how you could approach a mmo?

[ProCoder]

Hello! I am new here and a soon owner of a gamebuino! Though as you can see by the title of this, is there any way to make a mmo that would be connected through the internet?

[adekto]

yes its possible using a expansion module that similar to the "Arduino Ethernet Shield"
but to be honest the chance you will have any benefits of being online is very low since what can u do with the small screen and not many people would be online since they ether wont have the expansion module or are not in the same timezone

as alternative u can do a local multiplayer by daisy chaining a couple gamebuino's together

[rodot]

Actually the arduino ethernet shield allows you to host a micro-server, but you can't really use it as a regular Ethernet client. But you could create a network with only servers sending each other requests, it's not usual but I think it'd be possible.

I don't really know how the WiFi shield works, that could be another solution.

You could also connect you gamebuino to a computer (USB or wirelessly) and use the computer as a bridge... Just kidding

[ProCoder]

Thanks for the reply, so I am just wondering if this would be possible. Having a group of gamebuinos connected, but they could all play a simple gun game where they would be split into teams and such though?

[adekto]

sure totally possible to make

[rodot]

It's pretty easy by connecting (daisy-chaining) your Gamebuinos together using the I2C ports. I you want to go online and play with people from all around the word, it more difficult, yet possible.

[ProCoder]

That is really cool! I honestly got the gamebuino so I could try to make simple games and stuff but honestly now I know that this kind of stuff is possible I can't wait try get my gamebuino!

[ripper121]

That is really cool! I honestly got the gamebuino so I could try to make simple games and stuff but honestly now I know that this kind of stuff is possible I can't wait try get my gamebuino!

You can all test with the emulator

[ProCoder]

The problem for me on that is I had troubles with the emulator, I used the exe file and put in crabinator but it gave me a battery issue.

[rodot]

Yeah, the emulator doesn't support the battery level. You can disable the battery warning in the Gamebuino library in file battery.cpp. More info in the page 5 of the emulator thread.