Any ideas on porting an online game from COCOS2D to Stride. (C++)

[xheox]

Hi,
I discovered Stride today,
Very neat sofar ...
I have fairly big source code for a card game written in COCOS2D (C++).
I would like to port it to .NET to have a better code (maitainable) and more reliable client server connections.
I have 2 questions :

• Is there anything to take in account for STRIDE in particular if I am going to re-use some existing C++ code . I am thinking Interop or Creating a wrapper like other type of apps in C# consuming C++ code.
• I did not see anything about multi-player online games in Stride. So, do I have to build the server from scratch ? what would be the recommended way to do it ? I am looking for a simple server API to manage connections, and have a good set of primitives for messaging and event publishing. If there is nothing, then I might look for message broker or an actor framework (my preferred).

Thanks

[tebjan]

• Is there anything to take in account for STRIDE in particular if I am going to re-use some existing C++ code . I am thinking Interop or Creating a wrapper like other type of apps in C# consuming C++ code.

Nothing special there, you can use any P/Invoke or native interop that C# has to offer, Stride is a normal .NET project.

• I did not see anything about multi-player online games in Stride. So, do I have to build the server from scratch ? what would be the recommended way to do it ? I am looking for a simple server API to manage connections, and have a good set of primitives for messaging and event publishing. If there is nothing, then I might look for message broker or an actor framework (my preferred).

There is nothing built-in, but Stride types are serializable and you are free to choose any networking solution from the whole .NET ecosystem. You can use game-specific frameworks like lidgren or whatever some internet research will give you. Here are a few more:

https://github.com/RevenantX/LiteNetLib
https://github.com/BeardedManStudios/ForgeNetworkingRemastered
https://github.com/tom-weiland/RiptideNetworking
https://github.com/Cysharp/MagicOnion