Using Nakama server with GameMaker Studio 2.0

Game Design
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Hello

I would like to use Nakama server with GameMaker Studio 2.0.

As there is no dedicated Nakama client available for GameMaker, I suppose I need to use REST API. If so is there any REST API documentation available?

Are there any plans to create a GameMaker 2.0 client?

Thanks

Darius

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Hi @dariuspranskus. Welcome :wave:

It would be great to add GameMaker Studio 2.0 support but I don’t have much knowledge about GMS. We do have a REST API but don’t document it because we have a Swagger spec that can be used to generate the outline of a client sdk.

Would you be interested to collaborate on a GMS client sdk?

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Hi Chris

Let me see what I can do. I will start by bringing all REST API implementation to GMS2. Not sure how long it might take, because this is my side project. Also I might need some help when I come to the real time stuff. Could you please give me more information on that?

Happy New Year 2020!!!

Thanks

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Also I might need some help when I come to the real time stuff. Could you please give me more information on that?

Sure. Happy to help. :slight_smile:

Before I cover the realtime protocol in more detail I’ll describe how we maintain the client sdks for each game engine or language we support.

Each client sdk codebase has a small Go application which is used to generate the low level client object/struct (I’ll use the .NET sdk as a reference). The Go application reads the Swagger spec and generates a single file with minimal or no dependencies that is used as the “low level” client. We then wrap around it with another client object to make the API nicer to use.

With the realtime protocol we manually generate the message types to send over the wire when you send JSON but with Protobuf you can just send binary messages. Have a look at this code for how you connect and do the protocol upgrade:

https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama-dotnet/blob/master/src/Nakama/Socket.cs#L177

The only requirement of the socket implementation is that it must respond to PINGs (frame control messages) sent by the server. This checks the liveliness of the socket which helps greatly to detect bad disconnects quickly.

Happy New Year to you!

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Nakama for GMS2, yes please! :grinning:

GameMaker has been around for decades and there hasn’t been any multiplayer framework that supports it. Very sad. The changes from GMS2 to GMS2.3 brings lots of things in their GML scripting languages, now making it easier to use and more streamlined

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Happy new year :sweat_smile:
Any news regarding this?

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bump

I’m guessing theres still no news about this or maybe it just wont be done since there may not be enough interest.