SmartFoxServer 3 | MMO Basics

SmartFoxServer is a comprehensive platform for rapidly developing multi-user applications and games with Unity, HTML5, iOS, Android, Java and more. It comes with an extremely rich set of features, an impressive documentation set, tens of examples with their source, powerful administration tools, an included free 100 CCU license and a very active support forum. Born in 2004, and evolving continuously since then, today SmartFoxServer is the leading middleware to create large scale multiplayer games, MMOs and virtual communities, thanks to its simplicity of use, versatility and performance. It powers hundreds of projects all over the world, from small chats and turn-based games to massive virtual worlds and realtime games. Learn more on the SmartFoxServer website. —————————— This demo project offers an introduction to SmartFoxServer's MMO API and the concept of Area of Interest, which determines the spatial range of the events that will be received by players. This, in conjunction with the use of Server Variables to track the coordinates, allows creating a virtual environment in which potentially thousands of players can move around without overloading clients with updates. This proof-of-concept also features a server-side Extension, which accomplishes two tasks: (1) shows how to optimize the user positioning logic and (2) simulates any number of active users via the creation of automated Non-Player Characters (NPC) moving around the map randomly, entering and leaving the Area of Interest of players continuously. For more information, check our in-depth tutorial on the SmartFoxServer 3 documentation website. Asset uses licensed font(s); see Third-Party Notices.txt file in package for details.