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[[Image:Oni MP at MacWorld NY 1999 3.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Kevin Armstrong, Oni's networking programmer, is seated at the computer in the background (Macworld NY '99)]] | [[Image:Oni MP at MacWorld NY 1999 3.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Kevin Armstrong, Oni's networking programmer, is seated at the computer in the background (Macworld NY '99)]] | ||
When Oni was first being shown publicly, multiplayer (MP) was promised, at least in a LAN setting. Some words from the Oni staff on multiplayer (back when it was in development) can be found in the interviews with [http://oni.bungie.org/special/part1/kevin.html Kevin Armstrong] (networking programmer) and [http://oni.bungie.org/special/part2/steve.html Steve Abeyta] (3D animator), as well as with Brent Pease himself (see video link below). Eventually, in May of 2000, [http://carnage.bungie.org/oniforum/oni.forum.pl?read=3185 it was announced] that there would be no multiplayer feature in Oni due to issues with latency. | When Oni was first being shown publicly, multiplayer (MP) was promised, at least in a LAN setting. Some words from the Oni staff on multiplayer (back when it was in development) can be found in the interviews with [http://oni.bungie.org/special/part1/kevin.html Kevin Armstrong] (networking programmer) and [http://oni.bungie.org/special/part2/steve.html Steve Abeyta] (3D animator), as well as with Brent Pease himself (see video link below). Eventually, in May of 2000, [http://carnage.bungie.org/oniforum/oni.forum.pl?read=3185 it was announced] that there would be no multiplayer feature in Oni due to issues with latency (though the decision [http://carnage.bungie.org/oniforum/oni.forum.pl?read=10354 may have been made] as early as December 1999). | ||
The lack of multiplayer in the final product may have been the biggest blow to Oni's reception. Combined with complaints about the AI, players wanted to be able to play against other humans. The public viewed this as another sign of the game's incompletion, comparing Oni to FPS titles with multiplayer such as Unreal and Quake, and failing to recognize that melee combat over the Internet was nearly impossible at that time (and still is; [http://wolfire.com/overgrowth Overgrowth] a.k.a. Lugaru 2 promises LAN support only; a notable exception from Oni's time period seems to be [[State of Emergency]], a melee-oriented game that apparently had reasonably fluid online multiplayer). | The lack of multiplayer in the final product may have been the biggest blow to Oni's reception. Combined with complaints about the AI, players wanted to be able to play against other humans. The public viewed this as another sign of the game's incompletion, comparing Oni to FPS titles with multiplayer such as Unreal and Quake, and failing to recognize that melee combat over the Internet was nearly impossible at that time (and still is; [http://wolfire.com/overgrowth Overgrowth] a.k.a. Lugaru 2 promises LAN support only; a notable exception from Oni's time period seems to be [[State of Emergency]], a melee-oriented game that apparently had reasonably fluid online multiplayer). | ||
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[http://oniplayer.oni2.net/ OniPlayer] was a project coordinated by typhen and involving [[User:Admin|Alloc]], Kumo, neonew, and ssg. Up to the departure of typhen in 2005, the project remained in the address-finding phase, with a limited application of this knowledge being made by Alloc's [[ONI-Trainer|OniTrainer]], typhen's [[OniFly]], and neonew's [http://neonew.oni2.net/ OniHook], which actually tracked and patched a character's animations as if synchronizing action over a network. | [http://oniplayer.oni2.net/ OniPlayer] was a project coordinated by typhen and involving [[User:Admin|Alloc]], Kumo, neonew, and ssg. Up to the departure of typhen in 2005, the project remained in the address-finding phase, with a limited application of this knowledge being made by Alloc's [[ONI-Trainer|OniTrainer]], typhen's [[OniFly]], and neonew's [http://neonew.oni2.net/ OniHook], which actually tracked and patched a character's animations as if synchronizing action over a network. | ||
The next attempt at incorporating MP into Oni was the [[Flatline]] project, started in 2008 and made possible by the [[Daodan DLL]]. Development progressed up to the point where gameplay was smooth with two or three players, though gunplay was not yet supported. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMeWr11QVjU This video from 2011] was of the latest Flatline build before development ceased. | The next attempt at incorporating MP into Oni was the [[Flatline]] project, started in 2008 and officially released in 2011, and made possible by the [[Daodan DLL]]. Development progressed up to the point where gameplay was smooth with two or three players, though gunplay was not yet supported. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMeWr11QVjU This video from 2011] was of the latest Flatline build before development ceased. | ||
The most recent attempt at injecting MP into Oni is the [[Zukai]] project, begun in 2012 and officially released in 2015, though it is currently only developed for Mac OS X, with a Windows version to follow when gameplay is no longer in such a rough alpha state. | |||
[[Category:Oni history]] | [[Category:Oni history]] | ||