Multi-Player Game over Bluetooth?

[Panathas]

Hi!
Is it possible to establish a connection between two Windows Phones by using Bluetooth and, e.g. for a multi-player game? Or do you have to use a server?

 

[thed]

Not until WP8. WP7 doesn't provide native access to the Bluetooth stack. But according to leaked SDK docs WP8 will.

 

[Panathas]

Thank you very much, so that means....waiting and hoping :/

 

[parshi4500]

Yes It is possible... My Cousin lived in Us, doing the same, I'll try to contact with him and pm you..

 

[Panathas]

Really? N1, thank you

 

[thed]

No way to do it over bluetooth, but it looks like you can do this over wifi using UDP multicast:

Windows Phone Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer Game using Sockets in XNA - Ricky Tan's blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

 

[Panathas]

That`s even better

 

[Panathas]

No way to do it over bluetooth, but it looks like you can do this over wifi using UDP multicast:

Windows Phone Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer Game using Sockets in XNA - Ricky Tan's blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

One more question:
Is it necessary to be in the same wifi network or is a p2p connection between to WP devices possible without the need of a router? Because in your link it says: "Phones running the game on the same WiFi network automatically discover one another and the players just appear on the screen."

 

[thed]

One more question:
Is it necessary to be in the same wifi network or is a p2p connection between to WP devices possible without the need of a router? Because in your link it says: "Phones running the game on the same WiFi network automatically discover one another and the players just appear on the screen."

I don't think WP7 supports ad hoc networking. So unfortunately if you want to make things work without a network you'll have to wait for WP8