timer
dragongamestudio
started a topic on Sun, 03 May 2015 at 11:53 PM
hello,
is there any feauture of cloud script to run timer, because i need it to do something like this scenario
Player A and Player B created matcmake and played in the room
one time player A just close the application/ uninstall it for some reason
and in Player B device the game still shown in his list, and player B doesnt know if player A uninstall it and not play it again, and because player B was very kind man, he still wait and hope player A will do his turn.
and what i would make with the cloud script is, to make a schedule to run a function in script to check if the room was not played for over 3 days, then the room will destroy, with objective to give Player B information if Player A hasnt do his turn for 3 days.
maybe playfab have some thing that ive didnt know yet to solve this, or some suggestion to solve this.
thank you :)
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Brendan Vanous said on Sun, 03 May 2015 at 11:59 PM
In general, server-side logic must be triggered by an action taken by a player, a server, or an administrative tool. For your specific scenario, the best way to solve this currently is with a check triggered by the individual player. So in this example, when Player B signs in to check his games, there should be a check to see when the last move was made by the other player. If, after several days of inactivity, Player A is "disqualified", that should be triggered the next time Player B checks on his open games.
Brendan
dragongamestudio said on Mon, 04 May 2015 at 1:44 AM
thank you for your suggestion,
any way what is the javascript version that playfab use for the cloud script?
quirkster said on Mon, 04 May 2015 at 7:49 AM
I just did something similar, so remember to convert timestamps to a common format when you do the comparison. In cloud script, I added a variable to each newly created game...
var startTime = Date.now();
Then, when a player downloaded their list of games, I would compare startTime to a timestamp from the client, but had to match the format first...
//need to add check to remove stale invites
DateTime started = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1).AddTicks(game.Value.startTime * 10000);
if (started.AddDays(7) < TimeCheck.instance.OfficialUTCDateTime) {
//remove stale invite
}
Brendan Vanous said on Mon, 04 May 2015 at 11:52 AM
We use the latest V8 JavaScript engine, so we are fully ECMA-262 compliant.
For operations like this (where you need to check information for multiple games the player is in, in this case), I would recommend putting the key info on all the games into a single master Shared Group Data object, or a set of User Data values which can be queried in one API call. Many separate calls to query for each game would be highly inefficient, and if you have a delay on any return (often due to last-mile issues with the client), this could cause a delay in the game.
Brendan
dragongamestudio said on Mon, 04 May 2015 at 4:21 PM
ok thank you Brandan :)
