Tidalis:Network Play

Introduction To Network Play

Important! You can play multiplayer in Tidalis without ever having to get into network play at all. One player simply uses the mouse, and the other uses the keyboard, and you can play absolutely every part of Tidalis in this way with just a single computer. The Network Play section is for when you have two computers that you want to use to play together.

Also Important! Before you read this section, it would probably be a good idea to read the Multiplayer Basics section, which covers all the actual multiplayer functionality (for playing on one or two computers, it's the same). This section is purely concerned with connecting multiple computers together.

With those caveats out of the way, let's move on. The basic idea here is that you have two players each with their own computer and their own copy of Tidalis, and they want to play together. These two players might be in the same room, or on different continents. It doesn't matter which. Only two computers at a time can be networked together with Tidalis, but there can be two players on each of those two computers, so you can have anywhere from two to four players actually playing together.