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    <p>I am a programmer of intermediate experience and I want to create a networked game. I can not decide what sort of networking "model" I should pick for this game. </p> <p>By "model" I mean the method by which information should be transferred from server to client and where the processing actually happens. Currently, this is the model that I am thinking of:</p> <ul> <li>Imagine there are four guys - User, John, Bob, and Server. Server is the guy controlling the game.</li> <li>User is sitting at his computer playing the game. He clicks his mouse.</li> <li>John is the program on User's computer who detects the mouse click. He doesn't know what it means, but he knows that he's supposed to send it to Bob.</li> <li>Bob is at the server's end. He, like John, knows nothing about the click but he knows how communicate with John. He picks up the mouse click and gives it to Server, telling him it came from User.</li> <li>Server is the brains. He interprets the mouse click and changes something in the game. Every (say) 30 milliseconds, Server renders the game. He knows where User's camera is pointed and so he generates an image which should appear on User's screen.</li> <li>Server doesn't know how to send it to User, so he gives it to Bob. Bob sends the image to John.</li> <li>John displays the image on the screen.</li> </ul> <p>Now, this is a 2 player game so I don't anticipate the server having issues processing all User requests. I would like to hear your feedback on this model. Is it good? If not, what are some alternatives? </p>
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    1. COuser>john>bob>server==user>program>api>server...is that accurate? What is the relationship between players one and two? Is this a sequential game where they alternately act as the user (chess)? Or are there two simultaneous parties hitting the server? how you've described it, it doesn't sound like a multiplayer system
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    2. CO@RobotWoods Yes that is correct. The players never communicate with each other. They just send their input to the server who generates the output and returns it to each of the users. It can be compared to a forum like this one: multiple clients send their messages to a server, the server stores them and returns an HTML document to each user containing all of the messages.
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    3. COin my opinion, the wording of your question is too imprecise to give a useful answer. the bulk of your question consists of a convoluted example "model" that makes very little sense. the "model" that should be used is heavily reliant on the type of game you are attempting to make, and you've provided no *useful* information. please attempt to revise your question, as i'm eager to help you out.
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