About multiplayer

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@jariwake

The code is different in the tutorial than in the example project. For example the tutorial code uses this.id when the example code uses Network.id - seems small thing, but I ended up spending hours trying to find out why my code wasn’t working.

Sorry about this, the tutorial itself is pretty old and probably hasn’t been checked for a while. Both the socket.io and PlayCanvas engine has been updated since then.

I’ve created an issue so we don’t forget about it: Multiplayer tutorial no longer works · Issue #123 · playcanvas/developer.playcanvas.com · GitHub

The documentation is open source so if you would like to help us improve or even just report an issues that you have, that would be a great help: GitHub - playcanvas/developer.playcanvas.com: Developer resources website for PlayCanvas

@jariwake

Also, the different language versions (tried English and Japanese) have different code.

The other language versions are done by the community so they can be a lot behind the English versions. Not 100% what to do about that going forward TBH as we go through improving the documentation and platform.

@jariwake

I strongly suggest you update the tutorial

Yeah, I’ve been wanting to expand it out quite a bit to do a basic .io game with a shared game state. We are quite a small team and unfortunately it’s been a balance of priorities.