Live multiplayer online - Share game server Direct IPs Hamachi Networks

You can share your multiplayer game servers in Direct IP, Hamachi Networks Live in GaminglanLive Chat in this blog.

Please give suggestions to make multiplayer online gaming simpler. This will let the multiplayer gamers search for games with out much effort and also simplifies a team game or clan games.

For direct IP you need to share your server IPs directly and for Hamachi networks, you can share the user name and password for all the games you like to play.

Multiplayer Games are highly unique different than Single Player Games

Q.  You play PC games?
I guess you do.

Q. Single Player or Multiplayer?
If you say single player, you are starting. If you say Multiplayer, you are a Gamer.

Graphics are not important in Multiplayer Games. Counter Strike is the best example. How better the graphics may be, no one wants to play a Multiplayer Game if the game is not so convincing. In the game counter strike, the player tend to play multiplayer a lot more than single player. Also, the bots in single player mode may spoil your game both accuracy wise and strategy wise.

So graphics are important for Singleplayer games and an extra feature for Multiplayer games. So this makes the design of Multiplayer and Singleplayer a lot different from each other. A game with both multiplayer and singleplayer support is very rare to get fame for both modes. Even if it did, only one of Multiplayer and Singleplayer is known to be more successful.

More over, multiplayer game now a days is just go on shooting one another or go on racing with all the arrow keys pressed with lot of anger. It takes a lot more than singleplayer mode to make a multiplayer game. The story line of the multiplayer game need to be written very carefully to make a nice game. The characters must be set some way. I will write a post on multiplayer gaming in games like Prince of Persia.

NFS Most Wanted Multiplayer LAN Game Settings

Connecting two computers via LAN and playing NFS in LAN is easy but just needs some time. To play NFS Most Wanted Multiplayer in LAN,

1. Firstly the two computers must be connected through a LAN cable and configured such that both the computers detect each other. NFSMW can directly connect between two computers and needs no additional software like PunkBuster.
2. Secondly, install the same version of the game NFSMW in both the computers. This will ensure the avoiding of any possibilities of version differences of NFS Most Wanted Game installation.
3. Now, from one of the computers, go to the NFS MW menu and reach the LAN Tab. From here Create a LAN Server where the NFSMW application asks you to enter a name.
4. Enter any name and proceed.
5. Ask the person at the other computer to select the same LAN server option in his menu of NFS MW.
6. Now, he must be able to see the name which you have put in your server. If he is not able to see any game names, ask him to disable the windows firewall or add NFSMW to firewall exception. Check the same with the server's PC too.
   
7. Ask him to join the game. If he is not able to join the game, retry by recreating the game server.
   
8. To join the game, the other person must also put his own name.
9. Ask him to enter the name and join.
10. Now the person who has created the server must start a quick race and should select one of the options out of three namely, Sprint, Circuit, Drag.
11. Its your own choice to chose the type of the race.
12. Once you finish selecting, the NFSMW application automatically searches for any games in the server. After it finds none, it will ask you to create one.
13. Create Game.
14. Ask your friend to select the same option out of three which you have selected, Sprint, Circuit or Drag.
15. Once he selects the option, he should be directly put into your game which you have created. If he is unable to join, it is wise to recreate game and ask him to join immediately.
    
16. That's it. The NFS MW application itself will start the game once everyone is ready in the game. You can enjoy playing.

NFS MW needs no additional application to play on LAN but to play online the NFS and all its games requires PunkBuster application.

While everyone is in the game, the game itself starts a countdown, there is no need to give any command to start the game in NFS Most Wanted. If one of the players quits in between the game, the connection will be lost. This will show the following error message "Connection to the other server has been lost".

Also if there is any problem regarding the connection of the cross cable to connect LAN, or any problem while connecting PCs in Windows, or for any problems regarding the setting up Multiplayer game Server in one PC, or if there is any problem regarding joining the created game, or problems with creation of games, feel free to comment.

The LAN gamers of IITs and NITs

As a part of the title, I can say, there is a lot to learn by gaming. And hence there is a word called noob. I used to wonder why some one is called a noob after playing the game so many times. Its because, there are some 'x' number of parameters which decide how you play a game, and there exists a definite number 'y', y less than x which is needed to survive the game. And the number of parameters which one can know playing a game with out the support of the second person is most probably 'z', and z less than y.

What makes the IITians and NITians not the best but better players? Its the co-operation. I am not saying this, but, a crowd in a mass considers NITians to be more talented than many others. And when such a mind goes mad about something it results in a definite absolute outcome which could be the (best-1) solution. And when 2 such (best-1) solutions are shared and compared, there could be a (best-0.1) solution. I always leave the best to the one(might not be in any school even).

Finally the LAN of the NITs and IITs is an enormous library of such solutions and you can get tips on almost all the multipayer games. If you are in such a library, you can see the knowledge radiating out of your PCs. Thats what a world of gaming is. More over there is a class room fot the direct meeting and discussion for all the gamers.

In the 4 years of true education, you are going to emerge out as the best gamer. After all those are just games and so is life.

Play Age of Empires Conquerors and Counter Strike 1.6 Multiplayer Online

There are many methods to play multiplayer games online. The best method is to use Game Spy Arcade. But there are some drawbacks with Game Spy Arcade like it cannot be used in institutions where the ports are blocked most of the times.

Also, there is a need to install the Game Spy Arcade software. One more this is you need to create a Game Spy Arcade account for joining the Game Spy Arcade.

Here, all you need to join the game using the IP given. So the input you are waiting for is just IP. So, you need to just chat some where to get the IP of the game host.

What you can do here is to just give the IP of the multiplayer game as a comment to this post. The players who ever want to join will join taking this as the input.

Thats how you can join either Counter Strike 1.6 or Age of Empires Conquerors,

1. For Counter Strike 1.6, the Server will give you his IP address, the players should join that server by giving the command like this in the console,

• connect 182.243.232.59:27015

• connect 59.93.64.59:27015

2. And for the game Age of Empires, just go to TCP/IP and click on join game. Now give the IP given here to join that game. Thats it, you are in the online multiplayer game now.


Start giving the IPs now.

Whats the advantage of this,

• No need for you to install any software.
• No need to worry about ports, just open this web page in any computer.
• No need to create any online accounts.
• No need to signin into orkut or any other social newtworking website.
• No need to keep some other program running while playing the game. Just open and close this web page.

All the best and enjoy!!!

Mobile Phone Multiplayer Games via Bluetooth and GPRS

Introduction:

Mobile Phone Multiplayer Games are currently on the rise via bluetooth and the Multiplayer Gaming should be still upgraded to play online via GPRS. As the bandwidth and latency required for games are little higher than what most of the customers have, these have been not yet popular for the development. Nevertheless, Multiplayer gaming via bluetooth has been a great advantage for many users.

Support:

The Mobile Phone makers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, etc... have all been giving the feature of multiplayer games via bluetooth in many of the mobile phones which are supporting bluetooth data transfer.

Some of the games which are supporting multiplayer games include, Asphalt urban GT, Rally Pro Challenge, Snake 3D, Fifa, Snow Boarding, etc...

How to Play:
In these mobile phones, if you see the game options while in the main menu of the game, you can see the option for multiplayers which includes Bluetooth data transfer mode. With two such mobile phones you connect to each other and play the games via Bluetooth. This is the actual method of playing Multiplayer games in Mobile Phones. It would be much easier may be if the phones are paired previously.

What is Bluetooth:
Bluetooth is a wireless data transfering device embeded nowadays in many electronic devices. In these days, Cars have bluetooth, PCs have bluetooth, Phones have bluetooth (these made it popular) and many more. You can have wireless connection with bluetooth.

Pairing Two Blutooth Devices:
To pair two bluetooth devices follow this procedure,

1. Switch on bluetooth in both the devices.
2. Go to Add new device in one of the devices.
3. Search for bluetooth devices in one device.
4. The other device will be shown.
5. Press OK on it.
6. It will ask both of them to give a passcode.
7. Give some number but should be given same in both the devices.
8. Thats it you are finished pairing two bluetooth devices.

Why to Play:
There is no answer for this question though, I just want to tell you this, there are many organizations which are organizing games all over the world. One such Cup is ESWC, Electronic Sports World Cup. This not only conducts the PC game competitions but also Mobile Phone Gaming Competitions. The Mobile Phone Game Asphalt Urban GT has been conducted in this October itself. And after that, the prize money wont be a small amount.