Masjin updated!
As mentioned below, I updated Masjin to add a link to the server hosting tool to the game. Also there were some incompatible pieces of code so I fixed those (hopefully all of them). I’ve tested the server hoster and it should work alright!
1. Host a server on port 6121 (or whichever port you want, that’s the default)
2. Players set the string ‘server’ in server.txt to your IP, and ‘port’ to 6121 (or whichever you chose)
3. Port forwarding might be required but I literally don’t know how that works
4. Start up a game!
super game developer fellow.
Unfortunately the server isn’t mine and the original hosts of the server are not answering anymore, so I can’t do anything to set it up again. :(
start the server people want to play again.
start the server people want to again.
Last time I have played this game was in far 2012 when this game was kind of popular. And yesterday I unexpectedly remembered that this game exists and I really wanted to find it. The only thing that I remembered is that there were planes and destroyable terrain, unfortunately I forgot the name. I spent 6 hours by looking for this game everywhere. Every indie game site, every indie blog was examined to the bone. And after much time (6 hours, dude) I found it on russian site dedicated to small indie games. My satisfaction knew no bound. I was so damn happy. It was a moment of little nostalgia. Very good moment.
And all my expectations were vanished by only three words: “Connecting to server”… I was staring at this phrase for 5 minutes, or maybe 10, or maybe 30. Who knows? Nothing happened anyway. I didn’t know what to do. It felt just like this game is no longer alive. And I’ve decided to make my own server (with blackjack and hookers, yeah). And you know what happened? Nothing again. This infinite word “Hosting”. Sadness filled me from head to toe. I didn’t know what to do. And I still do.
I hope that you’ll answer me soon and tell me what to do with it. Is there any way to bring this game back to life? :c
Unfortunately there’s very little I can do to help; the persons who made the hosting tools I use & hosted the public server Masjin are no longer keeping those up, and since I made the game using a game-creation tool, I can’t really do anything to fix things. I’ve checked that the server hoster does work with locally hosted servers, but I’ve heard it doesn’t otherwise work and been unable to test it to see what I can do due to me lacking a computer capable of hosting (along with that previous bit about lack of options).
When the server hoster says “hosting…” the server should be up; have you tried port forwarding? I’m sorry I can’t be of more help, I can try to contact the creator of the server protocol but I doubt there’s much even they can do about it. It’d be cool to get the server hoster to properly work, though, obviously!
I tried it out and there are 2 things I noticed. (I’m hosting locally and only tried it out alone)
Whenever you end a game the server doesn’t seem to respond anymore, I cannot make a new game again and the server log states that a player has disconnected. Whenever I try to reconnect it wont do it (Just stays on “Connecting to server”). Whenever I try to restart the client it works again. So either the server throws you out and for some reason doesn’t want to let you reconnect or something fishy is going on with the client. Or maybe it’s something only I experience in this setup.
By the way; it doesn’t do that all the time
I might have some spare server power available to host a Masjin server in the near future.
That’d be amazing! I’ll look into the bug you reported once I get some work done on ESA. The code is so old that I can’t promise that I’ll find the cause of it, though :(
Also it’s still down.
Yes, the server owner hasn’t responded to my message :( Too bad I can’t host a game myself, I could organize games otherwise.
YES! Thank you Hempuli, I have been waiting for this!
Thanks. By the way, how are you supposed to play this game in full screen, apart from changing resolution to 1280×800 + using windows 7 full screen zoom to 125% so 640*1.25=800 (but then 1 pixel on 4 is doubled, which looks weird) ? f4/F11/alt+enter doesn’t work, any other trick ?
Hmm, it might be that I never enabled fullscreen in the game. I’ll look to it!
When I click “connect” it doesn’t work, that’s intended right ? That is, there won’t ever be an official server again, we can play it only with friends by creating a server and giving the ip ? Not like much people still played it though.
I’ve contacted the host of the original server, it should be fixed later today.