Love2D-Simple-Multiplayer

A simple multiplayer implementation where there's a server and multiple clients can connect and control squares on the display.

Networking Logic

• The synchronised table has seamless integration with Lua's table data structure - you're able to use it normally, and then it can be later polled for any updates that have happened to it and it's sub tables
• Serialisation will create a tree like representation of the updates
  • With data and sub tables: outerTable{key1=value1,key2=value2}[subTable1{}[],subTable2{}[]]
  • With no data: outerTable[subTable1{}[],subTable2{}[]]
  • With no sub tables: outerTable{key1=value1,key2=value2}

Packet Loss

• Add an age to each state data table
  • This is updated whenever the data table is updated
• The other side will store the last known age, then send that back so the original state can then see whats been updated since that last known age
• Both server and client will do this, as packet loss can occur on either side
• This then handles packet loss, since if a packet gets lost, the last known age doesn't update, and then when the side requests the next updates, it will include the lost packet's data.