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[Orb]

Yeah, the tutorial says poison destroys them.

[Eclectic Wizard]

That is why you go and die in the water.

[Eclectic Wizard]

So I figured out that I wanted to look at the source, could somebody help me make this multiplayer?

[Rakonas]

I'd actually be more likely to play this multiplayer, but you'd need to change the end game somehow. I just drove everyone to extinction with the hope of being the only strain remaining but I failed, sadly. An interesting game.

[Anvilfolk]

Making a game multiplayer if it wasn't planned almost from the beginning to allow for multiplayer at some point is very, very hard. It generally entails a pretty big architectural change, or adding hacks everywhere, making it a buggy mess.

That said, I don't have a ton of practical experience with it, so take it with a grain of salt

[Eclectic Wizard]

Making a game multiplayer if it wasn't planned almost from the beginning to allow for multiplayer at some point is very, very hard. It generally entails a pretty big architectural change, or adding hacks everywhere, making it a buggy mess.

That said, I don't have a ton of practical experience with it, so take it with a grain of salt

I once made a singleplayer BYOND game a multiplayer BYOND game. But that was easy to do..

[Vector]

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[Anvilfolk]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the purpose of BYOND was to be multiplayer, right? If you're working from bare C code that's probably not going to be the case

[Glloyd]

As someone who's worked with BYOND for a few years now, as well as having a background in programming. BYOND is designed for multiplayer games, and making a singleplayer BYOND game multiplayer is absolutely nothing like hacking an existing game into one. Also, totally different languages. I didn't check to see what Cultivation is written in, but DM (the language that BYOND uses) is made for multiplayer games. Unless you have a good grasp of whatever Cultivation is written in, a large amount of time, and a willingness to potentially rewrite entire sections of the game, it's going to be a very difficult process.

[Sensei]

So I figured out that I wanted to look at the source, could somebody help me make this multiplayer?

You'd have to rebuild it from scratch with the additional features.