Rapid Android Development

Network a Pair of Androids for a Multiplayer Game

For this project, we are going to build on the previous sketch, in which we connected two Android devices using Wi-Fi and OSC. Let’s build a simple multiplayer game where each player uses an Android device to tilt a marble toward a selected target, as illustrated in the following figure. Instead of a scenario in which one player controls the outcome on a single device, two devices will share a virtual game board whose orientation reflects the actions of the two players. One player influences the tilt of the other’s game board, and vice versa.

To make the marbles for this game look three-dimensional, ...