Once a node has received input from every connected player, it advances the world by one tic. Rather than passing around the entirety of the world state, Doom sends the player’s input to all the other players. To play back a demo, Doom runs the game as normal, except that it reads input from a file rather than the keyboard. Thus, if you play the game twice with exactly identical input, you’ll see exactly the same playthrough: same damage, same monster behavior, and so on.Īnd that’s exactly what a Doom demo is: a file containing a recording of player input. There is no seed, either a game always begins at the first value in the list. Its random number generator is really a list of shuffled values each request for a random number produces the next value in the list. Surprise! The thing I know is, roughly, how multiplayer Doom works.ĭoom is 100% deterministic.
Well, joke’s on you! I don’t know anything about networking.
You’re hoping for my usual detailed exploration of everything I know about networking code in games. How about do something on networking code, for some kind of realtime game (platformer or MMORPG or something). :DĪh, I see.
