Introduction To WP7 Development and Farseer Slides

I've put up the slides from my presentation at Nordic Game Jam 2012. Have fun!

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Anonymous said…
I did a game on farseer for WP7 (Air Soccer Tour) I am doing a multiplayer version (peer to peer basicaly with a non-authoritative server in the middle that is just relaying messages) for it and no matter how synced I try to make it, the game diverges very soon. its a 6meter x 10 meter world with just 7 objects and you can swipe player objects (circles) to kick the ball towards the goal etc. When player 1 swipes one of his strikers, I delay the actual ApplyImpulse by 15 simulations steps and make sure it reaches the other phone so they can both apply the impulse in the SAME simulation step. Still game diverges. I read your article on floating point vs fixed point but will I have to re-code portions of farseer to make it fixed point? Any otehr suggestions?
February 18, 2012 at 12:46 AM
Genbox said…
There will always be a variable delay when working with networking. This can cause a considerable lag if the clients are not synchronized properly.

Have a look at this article:
http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Network_Game_Programming-Issue_07_I_bent_my_Wookie.shtml

The issue it probably not related to the use of floating point numbers, but rather the timing of the impulses. Farseer Physics Engine is deterministic, this means that given the same input in two worlds that are identical, they will behave the same way.
February 18, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Anonymous said…
Will you continue working on Farseer?
March 7, 2012 at 9:35 PM
Genbox said…
Yes, I will continue to work on Farseer whenever I get some spare time.
March 7, 2012 at 9:58 PM
Software media said…
Hello

I’m working on game development magazine – Game Coder Mag Physics – aimed mostly at professionals and those who study to work in the field of game development in the future.

I’m looking for authors for the next issue devoted to collision detection. But if You would like to chose other topic there won't be a problem. Please let me know if you'd be interested in writing an article for the magazine by mail adam.robakiewicz@software.com.pl

Best
Adam Aleksander Robakiewicz
March 15, 2012 at 10:51 AM

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