Learn more about PPTG Online
PPTG Online is an online service provided by PPTGames. It's API allows you to easily implement online features for you games, operating systems or others, made in PowerPoint. You can use PPTG Online for many different things:
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Check for the latest version of your project and get the new version's news and installer;
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Add an account system for profiles;
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Enable users to upload content or download content by others;
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Make a tour based multiplayer game;
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Make a realtime open world multiplayer game.
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These are just some examples of what you can do, the limit is really your imagination.
Partnered projects
Blocks. Online
Maze Maker
Maze Maker Online
How it works
PPTG Online uses two different methos for online features, for two different situations. Your project might require you to use both methods.
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HTTP Request
Send a request to the server and receive a response. This is the easiest method and probably the most used one. For example, the request can be a query to a database and the response the results of the query.
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Real-time requests
Normally, one would use WebHooks for real-time multiplayer, but in case of PowerPoint we decided it was best to make it differently. Basically PowerPoint opens a hidden instance of Internet Explorer and navigates to the specific PPTG Online page. In this page the server sends information that PowerPoint reads every tick.
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Getting started
To get started you first have to create a server. We recommend one server per project. The server is mainly divided in to two distinct parts – script files and database. The script files are files with JavaScript code. The database is what stores the data, that be accounts, user content, or other.