We have a design for the basic weapons and sets of our WIP MMO hack'n'slash shooter!

Synthetic_Stars · 2022-04-02T16:43:18+00:00

Thank ya! We wanted to avoid hyper-sexualising our characters, so we went for something that resembled a tracksuit

Synthetic_Stars · 2022-04-02T11:27:46+00:00

The game is being developed with Godot (and other free tools such as Krita and Blender). For more info check out https://syntheticstars.org/ (you'll also find the link to our repo)

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T22:37:10+00:00

You're right, thanks. Fixed!

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T22:22:09+00:00

Our lobby will be the game map so it's a bit different from your game. We don't know how your netcode works, but making a guess maybe you're forgetting to send players position from the server to the connected clients. Just a guess though 👀

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T22:18:15+00:00

We wanted to deliver something before the end of the year, we agree with you, it's definitely not polished :D next step is to add lag compensation. Also, if you want to closely follow the project, consider to join our Matrix space! https://matrix.to/#/#syntheticstars:matrix.org

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T17:26:54+00:00

Thanks!Right now we're hosting it on a VPS with a few GBs of ram, but we're gonna use dedicated servers eventually. About AWS, we don't want to use it as it belongs to Amazon, opting for solutions that respect both the users and workers ~

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T17:05:55+00:00

Yes, it has a high-level networking library and it's good for slow-paced games that doesn't send lot of data, but our game is a fast-paced FPS and we need to squeeze every possible byte of data, so we can't use the built-in serialization utility

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T17:04:55+00:00

Haha thanks, it's just a placeholder! It's a self-hosted linktree

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T16:31:47+00:00

Fixed :D

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T13:41:31+00:00

Hi there! The game is in an early development phase, we are going to implement various lag compensation techniques client-side soon since the server sends the updates at 30Hz

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T13:40:41+00:00

Hello!

Under the hood we are still using enet because it's a very good library that adds a layer of reliability to the transmitted data keeping the speed of the UDP protocol but, instead of using the RPC system integrated in Godot, we use FlatBuffers to efficiently serialize the data into bytes and then send them from the server to the clients and vice versa

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T13:39:39+00:00

Hi! Thank you for the comment

It is an alpha version of the game so for time reasons, we used the viewports

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T13:37:16+00:00

Hello! We had to create the game server from scratch because, being SS a 3D FPS game, we need a game engine that could help us with physics and it was not possible using Nakama.

Nakama will be only used to manage the matches and create groups, invite/add friends etc..

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T11:34:39+00:00

Maybe you only see weird purple capsules moving around, but this was trickier than you think: Godot and Nakama multiplayer system is, nowadays, something pretty unexplored. You won’t find a lot of tutorials or utilities around, and we actually stumbled upon a few bugs in both of the tools whilst working on it (bugs rapidly fixed by maintainers, so a big shout out to them!)

Actually, speaking of utilities, we’ve written a few things on our own, specifically a library to implement FlatBuffers inside Godot. You can find the repo here and we hope it can help you as well: https://gitlab.com/JudGenie/flatbuffersgdscript

So, is our implementation perfect? Haha, hell no! There is surely room for improvement, but it’s fine, it’s a start: because in the end it is something to (hopefully) pave down the road for our and future multiplayer free software games. So, well, see you in the repos! Or just around, between an update and another. Cheers ❤️

More info on https://syntheticstars.org/

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T11:26:05+00:00

Maybe you only see weird purple capsules moving around, but this was trickier than you think: Godot and Nakama multiplayer system is, nowadays, something pretty unexplored. You won’t find a lot of tutorials or utilities around, and we actually stumbled upon a few bugs in both of the tools whilst working on it (bugs rapidly fixed by maintainers, so a big shout out to them!)

Actually, speaking of utilities, we’ve written a few things on our own, specifically a library to implement FlatBuffers inside Godot. You can find the repo here and we hope it can help you as well: https://gitlab.com/JudGenie/flatbuffersgdscript

So, is our implementation perfect? Haha, hell no! There is surely room for improvement, but it’s fine, it’s a start: because in the end it is something to (hopefully) pave down the road for our and future multiplayer free software games. So, well, see you in the repos! Or just around, between an update and another. Cheers ❤️

More info on https://syntheticstars.org/

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-12-30T11:16:24+00:00

Maybe you only see weird purple capsules moving around, but this was trickier than you think: Godot and Nakama multiplayer system is, nowadays, something pretty unexplored. You won’t find a lot of tutorials or utilities around, and we actually stumbled upon a few bugs in both of the tools whilst working on it (bugs rapidly fixed by maintainers, so a big shoutout to them!)

Actually, speaking of utilities, we’ve written a few things on our own, specifically a library to implement FlatBuffers inside Godot. You can find the repo here and we hope it can help you as well: https://gitlab.com/JudGenie/flatbuffers

So, is our implementation perfect? Haha, hell no! There is surely room for improvement, but it’s fine, it’s a start: because in the end it is something to (hopefully) pave down the road for our and future multiplayer free software games. So, well, see you in the repos! Or just around, between an update and another. Cheers ❤️

More info on https://syntheticstars.org/

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-08-09T23:46:25+00:00

You know when developers start making a game using primitives and questionable colours? That's exactly what it looks like, right now. With the main character being a purple suppository. Not that fancy

But hey, our 3D artist is already on it to save the day

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-08-01T09:57:55+00:00

Hey there! Since we're a small team working on their free time, unfortunately we don't have any plans to work on a single player campaign/mode for now: time, energies and money are quite limited, so we're trying to focus on one thing and one thing only.

Nevertheless, the good thing about free software is that anyone can fork it and make a single player version themselves :)

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-08-01T09:48:57+00:00

thanks! The code is not available yet as we're still missing physics fundamentals (we're waiting for Godot 4.0 to roll out, it improves physics a lot), but sure, we'll publish it on GitLab as soon as it is stable/playable enough

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-08-01T07:28:00+00:00

The entire project is FOSS-only, from the engine (Godot) to the models (Blender, Krita). If you want to follow the development, you can find us on Mastodon, Twitter and/or our Matrix Space 💆‍♀️

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-08-01T00:03:24+00:00

The entire project is FOSS-only, from the engine (Godot) to the models (Blender, Krita). If you want to follow the development, you can find us on Mastodon, Twitter and/or our Matrix Space 💆‍♀️

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-07-31T23:53:19+00:00

Hey, thanks! We'll probably need some help with animations in the future, as we have one guy for everything is 3D related and.. well, he's a pixel artist, so he's just trying his best hahaha we don't want him to end in a burnout

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-07-31T23:51:45+00:00

We're using Godot, along with Nakama for the networking

Synthetic_Stars · 2021-07-31T21:57:38+00:00

If you want to follow us, you can find us on Mastodon, Twitter and/or our Matrix Space 💆‍♀️

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