Apr 02 2008
Game of Thud!
I’ve been fiddling with Mono lately, the free software implementation of the Microsoft .Net system. I say, fiddling, mostly just looking at. My good friend Matt wrote a network game of Thud! in C# for Windows. I was trying to get it working under Linux.
I’m happy to say that migrating a Visual Studio project with MonoDevelop worked flawlessly for me. Then I just hit Build Project and it worked. The game is human-player only, so I wanted to write a rudimentary AI to play against. (I don’t really know how to play, so I think I could beat me fairly easily.)
Then I hit this bug in the Mono system which causes complete failure whenever you try to open a network connection — but only if your machine has a dynamic IP address. Yeah, I know…
I wanted to simplify the networking protocol (currently it’s the default .Net serialisation system, which is rather opaque). That will have to wait until I can play the game without crashing it.