On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Andrew McNabb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:44:27AM -0400, Matthew Gardner wrote: > > > > How does the server notify players > > when it is their turn, with the updated state? > > I think in these cases that people usually write Javascript code on the > client that performs a request and waits for a response. The server > waits to respond to the request until the appropriate condition is met. I am pretty sure that on App Engine this would cause the request to time out so the JavaScript would have to be able to remake the request which is pretty much the same as polling anyway. I don't know if other services are like this (I guess that if you own your own server you can set the timeout to be infinity+1). For turn based games wouldn't it be sufficient to have the client check for updates once a minute? This polling could even be used as a sort of switch where if a move has been made and an update hasn't been requested for x minutes then send out an email notifying the user of the move. Joshua.
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