Csharp

The server says WELCOME. The client, which has spent this whole project stuck on a transition screen, reads it, packs up, and tries to load the actual arena map. Then it asks to join the match.

Last post my server could hear the client say HELLO. This post it says something back, and the client, which has been shouting into a dead socket for eighteen years, answers with three messages I didn’t have to ask for.

I started actually writing the server. It’s about a hundred lines so far and it does exactly one thing: it hears the client say HELLO and understands it. But that’s the first time anything I’ve written has been on the other end of that conversation.