muliplayer games(NOT MMO DAMNIT!!!)

[Pixel Punk]

I was just curious what it requires/if you can run multplayer games(on rpgmaker) through like a network cable or online where up to 8 or so people can join a game and play together. Would you need anything like a server for that or would you just be able to run it off of the computers that are playing? I don't know much about online stuffs but it just sounded like a neat idea.
Anyways, yeah if anyone could gimie a brief reply about what this might require that would be neat!

 

[Unka Josh]

A heck of a lot of skill with Ruby programming, at the very least. RMXP/VX aren't designed for this kind of thing, so you'll need to be good to transform them into something new like that.