Hyper Blaze
About the Project
Hyper Blaze is a competitive FPS shooter where we play in teams of 2 to score goals on the opponent's goalpost. We used Steamworks to host the game and introduce the ability to invite and join friends in the game. My role in this project was that of a Network & Systems Programmer. Some of my tasks were introducing the team to approaching a multiplayer game, managing the lobby teams, managing and carrying over game states, spawning and respawning players correctly etc.
Lobby
We used Steam Advanced Sessions to help integrate Steam in our game. This helped us Invite and Join Friends. With the basic framework ready we added additional functions to manage the session, For Ex: Maximum amount of players.
Spawn Points
The Players are assigned a Player start when the match begins depending on their predefined team.