https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/tags/networking/ Recent content in Networking on Reviving Fury Hugo en-us Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +1200 https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-client-wont-talk-so-i-opened-it-up/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +1200 https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-client-wont-talk-so-i-opened-it-up/ The client stopped narrating what it was doing, so the trick that got me through the last four posts was dead. I had to stop watching the game and start reading the machine code underneath it. First disassembler of the project. https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-clients-first-step-onto-the-map/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:15:00 +1200 https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-clients-first-step-onto-the-map/ 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. https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-handshake-answers-back/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:30:00 +1200 https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-handshake-answers-back/ 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. https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-first-word-heard/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +1200 https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-first-word-heard/ 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. https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-pawn-before-the-player/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +1200 https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-pawn-before-the-player/ I traced the shortest path through Fury’s own code from ‘a player connected’ to ‘a character exists and can move’. The character turns out to exist first. https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-clients-first-word/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +1200 https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-clients-first-word/ I pointed a 16-year-old game client at a server that doesn’t exist and listened. It said hello in plain English. https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-server-nobody-kept/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +1200 https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/the-server-nobody-kept/ I went looking for an existing Unreal Engine 3 server I could build on top of. Every one I found cheats in a way I can’t. https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/opening-phase-3/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +1200 https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/opening-phase-3/ Phase 2 is done. I’ve read the whole game. Now comes the part where I have to build the thing that’s actually missing. https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/can-the-client-host-a-game/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +1200 https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/can-the-client-host-a-game/ The shortcut was: get the game to quietly host a match for itself, no server needed. I tried it. The door is welded shut, same as the last three. https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/what-the-client-says-first/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +1200 https://jamerlybob.github.io/fury-devlog/posts/what-the-client-says-first/ I point the dead game’s login at a tiny program I wrote, just to eavesdrop on the very first thing it tries to say to a server that isn’t there anymore.