Simple network gaming, client-server architecture planning.

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Hi, I'm coding simple game which I plan to make multiplayer (over the network) as my university project. I'm considering two scenarios for client-server communication:

The physics (they're trivial! I should call it "collision tests" in fact :) ) are processed on server machine only. Therefore the communication looks like

Client1->Server: Pressed "UP"
Server->Clients: here you go, Client1 position is now [X,Y]
Client2->Server: Pressed "fire"
Server->Clients: Client1 hit Client2, make Client2 disappear!

server receives the event and broadcasts it to all the other clients.

Client1->Server: Pressed "UP"
Server->Clients: Client1 pressed "UP", recalculate his position!!
[Client1 receives this one as well!]

Which one is better? Or maybe none of them? :)

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