Ok, question concerning serialization etc... I made my first Java game and, quite eloquently, entitled it JavaBattle. It''s actually really dumb, simple, and unoriginal, but located at www.geocities.com/silver_klyph/JavaBattle.html for your reference. The purpose of the game was for me to play around with applets and other fun things. There are two ideas that I want to implement however. JavaBattle, as of right now, keeps track of nothing. You put in your name, and beat up on a computer player (unless you''re me, in which case the comp beats up on you!!). I was interested in being able to establish characters where people could select a Username and password, and the applet would keep track of wins/losses, username/password in a separate file. Once a user''s name and password has been manually written into the file, they are correctly identified. However, a person cannot create a character themselves, because the file doesn''t give "Permission" to write. How do I solve this? I''m working with Java 1.3 if it means anything. I''ll save the second idea (networking) for another fun post =). Thanks!!

Could I make a client/server game and when I wanted to write data to a file for a new player, the server application could just write the data to a file? Or would I encounter the same problems?

[edited by - TreizeSG on July 28, 2003 3:22:47 PM]

quote:Original post by TreizeSG
Could I make a client/server game and when I wanted to write data to a file for a new player, the server application could just write the data to a file? Or would I encounter the same problems?

[edited by - TreizeSG on July 28, 2003 3:22:47 PM]

You'll need to have an application running in the server with RW rights. You could make the client applet to POST the info through a cgi script in the server which will write the info.

[edited by - xaxa on July 28, 2003 12:26:31 AM]