Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

@Alon I don't have two months to learn another engine. After this game I will look into Godot. In a possible future where I teach a game dev class, I certainly wouldn't teach my students Unity (or any other proprietary engine that risks enshittified vendor lock-in).

Schrödinger's account creation page. #uxfail

I'm trying to learn to develop multiplayer games in Unity, using the project from Binary Lunar's excellent tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWPKlpeZUjM

If I simultaneously run a local build on my machine (which happens to be a Linux box) and run the game within the Unity editor, I can create a host in one and a client in the other. They play together happily.

I also made a MacOS build and downloaded it on a separate machine. I can run the game there and create a host.

Strangely, if I then try to create a client from the other machine (either the local Linux build or within the editor), I get this message:

[Netcode] Cannot start Host while an instance is already running
UnityEngine.Debug:LogWarning (object)
Unity.Netcode.NetworkLog:LogWarning (string) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@1.6.0/Runtime/Logging/NetworkLog.cs:28)
Unity.Netcode.NetworkManager:CanStart (Unity.Netcode.NetworkManager/StartType) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@1.6.0/Runtime/Core/NetworkManager.cs:697)
Unity.Netcode.NetworkManager:StartHost () (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@1.6.0/Runtime/Core/NetworkManager.cs:830)
NetworkUI/<>c:<Awake>b__4_0 () (at Assets/Scripts/NetworkUI.cs:20)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem:Update () (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@1.0.0/Runtime/EventSystem/EventSystem.cs:530)

This only happens if there is an instance running on the Mac!

Of course, the only time you would want to create a client is if there is another instance (a host) running. It's as if the game running on the Mac and the one running in the Unity editor think they're the same program, and therefore refuse to make a "second" network connection.

What can I do about this?

#unity #unity3d #GameDev #netcode #ngo

When the dog barks at a delivery, are they protecting you or calling for backup? #DogsOfMastodon

@MBoffin Thanks!

I'm pro-FOSS, but the claim on KeePass's website that "you can have a look at its full source code and check whether the security features are implemented correctly" is pollyannaish. Nobody can tell by inspection if a nontrivial program contains bugs or security holes. Certainly nobody has time to read the source code for all the software they use. Deep philosophical questions about trust follow from this.

"It would require the average person spend 76 working days reading all the digital privacy policies they agree to in a year's time."

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3609981

What's your favorite password manager? I'm looking for something that:

- Automatically syncs across Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android

- Does not use a font that makes I, l, 1, and | indistinguishable.

My current manager fails on both counts.

#PasswordManager #security

Finished Baldur's Gate 3. Outstanding game. #VideoGames #BaldursGate3 #bg3

So now it's time for me to learn to make a multiplayer game in Unity. (I know, I know, but there isn't time to learn a new engine.)

Perhaps Unity has some tutorials on this?

Yes they do! *click* *click*

Oh.

#enshittification #unity #unity3d #GameDev