Re: [Rails-devel] Simultaneous loading of a game

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Chris Shaffer <chr...@gm...> wrote:
> Before I try it, I thought I'd ask - has anyone tried simultaneously loading
> a game from two different computers while using Dropbox as the game save
> file location?  If one player makes an action, would it update in the other
> player's copy of the open game file?  Or am I just asking for trouble?

I would expect that very little happens.  The save file is read only
at load-time.  After that, it's not read again.

The only time the file is written is when a user saves the game.

If you can coordinate each user loading the new saved game, I suspect
you could effect a sort of low-tech networked play.

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---Brett.