Multiplayer Flash game with db under it, fast enough?

[Themuppeteer]

Hello guys,

If I wanted to make a multiplayer game in flash, that has an access db on the webserver to keep the clients in sync, and the clients call asp pages to do queries on the db (with loadVariables)(like the state of the map), about twice a second would be nice but certainly not slower then once a second. Would this be fast enough ? The asp pages would return for the map about 100 integers and for player information some strings.
I'm not talking flash only here, its asp and flash and db access...
Anyone tried this or has some experience with this ?
All thoughts welcome.
thnx!


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[wangbar]

It's probably going to be okay to build a game that way as long as you don't need instant interaction between the players. If you want true multiplayer style game play you could use XML sockets which allow two way communication between players or the Flash Comm Server.

 

[Themuppeteer]

Well, players will have to be able to chat against each other, but that I can do also via the db.
If I would use the xml stuff you are talking about, would that be able to pass through firewalls then ?
Could you give me a very simple example (or a link) about this just to let me get the basics ? And how does this comm server work ?

thnx!

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