[wip] Tiny NAT-traversing Age of Empires 2 Multiplayer client.
Tiny NAT-traversing Age of Empires 2 Multiplayer client.
VERY work in progress, it’s probably pretty difficult to get it to compile.
The idea is to get a single portable zero-install executable that you can hand
to a few friends and immediately start playing. No creating accounts, no
installation, no router configuration, etc. Just the bare minimum.
Fluctuating. I wanted to build the matchmaking part using IRC, but that’s
turning out to be a bit difficult, because you would need server-side
adjustments to get IP addresses for the NAT traversal stuff (…I think.)
Anyway, it comes in two parts: matchmaking and connecting. Matchmaking will be
using a nickname (no real authentication), and using public or passworded rooms
(like IRC channels). Players can chat in rooms and the first player to join a
room (the host) can start the game. Initially, up to 8 players can join a room,
but in the future there’ll have to be more for UserPatch spectator mode.
(≤8 players + ≤32 spectators.) Connecting is probably going to be using ICE
somehow (libnice?), but I don’t know yet how to direct Age of Empires traffic
onto an ICE-established socket. All in due time :D
UserPatch includes automatic port forwarding using UPNP, but that doesn’t always
cut it, and you still need to exchange IP addresses manually.
On Linuxes:
apt-get install wine mingw32 mingw32-binutils.dxguid.lib and dplayx.lib from the DirectPlay SDK into lib/.make to buildmake run to runOn Windowses with Visual Studio:
WXWIN= path to your wxWidgets build base directory.