Playing a Multiplayer Game

A core feature of CREW is hosting multiplayer games where players can be humans or AI agents. A prebuilt multiplayer game in CREW is N v N Hide and Seek.

To play the game, open the game build folder crew-dojo/Builds and click on the server game file of Hide and Seek under HideAndSeek-Standalone{Platform}-Server. Then for each player, open up a client instance under HideAndSeek-Standalone{Platform}-Client for each computer connected to the same local network as the server. At the login page, type in the IP address of the server computer with any username. Each client instance will be able to see the same server in the match selection menu. Click on it and Join. An empty maze will appear. Go to the menu on the upper-left side, switch from Viewer to Player under the Role dropdown menu. In the waiting room, each client can chose to be a hider or a seeker. Once an equal number of hiders and seekers have been selected, the game will automatically start. Use up, down, left, right keys to control the agent. Once a seeker collides with a hider, the episode ends and will be reset.