Multiplayer and networking

Multiplayer and networking

sdev 14 Aug 2012 15:59

Hi, I am new here.

First of all, I want to congratulate for your magnificent tutorials. I learned a lot with them :)

Well, as for the thread, I would appreciate if you made a tutorial based on networking video-games.

I think that the most important points would be:

- What kind of protocol use (UDP, TCP…)

- How to build packages to send, or at least the structure

- A tutorial of making LAN and Internet connection.

- Matchmaking system and Dedicated Server.

- In case we use Datagrams (UDP), how to handle the package order and loss.

- How to calculate the PING, and how to optimize that.

Well, I've given to you some points to talk about. I think that this would be one of the most important tutorials.

And thank you very much for the tutorials.

Re: Multiplayer and networking

rbwhitaker 17 Aug 2012 22:19

Great suggestion. I've actually had a lot of people asking about networking from the early days of this site, and it's something I've always wanted to cover. I've just never gotten around to it. I just wanted to let you know that this is fairly high on my priority list.

If anyone else wants this, please leave a comment here to let me know. I wish I had some sort of voting system for these suggestions, but I don't right now. (Maybe down the line.)

Re: Multiplayer and networking

TonyNariksan 04 Sep 2012 20:33

I'd love to see this. I've been working on my own, using TCP and a simple 2D game for networking. Im currently in the process of rewriting the engine to 3D. This would really help to compare the way you do things to my ways. Your other Tutorials have helped a lot, HLSL mostly.

Keep up the awesome work,
Rat.

Lerthi (guest) 09 Nov 2013 13:09

I vote for a tutorial like this for sure!

Rob (guest) 02 Oct 2012 15:10

A tutorial about networking in your style would be great. Would really be keen on a LAN focus but online would be welcome too.

Re: Multiplayer and networking

jashanprt 14 Oct 2012 19:03

First of all i have just started your c# crash course.as i had already read c# it was a going throug but must say it was awesome. cleared a lot of my doubtss about generics, delegates, threading etc . looking forward to xna tutorials. I would really like to see some Networking (Socket tools from your side) and if u don't mind some cryptography part.

Charles Daitol (guest) 26 Dec 2012 09:33

As a student, we've been ask on what we want to do for our finals requirements, and i have thought of developing a simple game. I am Actually a first timer in using XNA. As I was googling bout how to develop a game, I got in here. Let's say, I've gone to many pages and sites just to see something like this. I find your tutorials very helpful, factful, and detailed; also add the fact that it is very noob-friendly :D

And just out of curiousity, maybe you can do some tutorials bout LAN Gaming. I'm getting ambicious cause of your tutorials hahahah. Before i got in here i just thought of making a simple game but then it struck me, how bout a LAN GAME? :D

thank you very much btw for your very useful tutorials :D

best wishes!

Nikoru (guest) 19 Jan 2013 18:18

Would love to see a tutorial like this. Something that went in depth on how to make a mullti-player game and how to do a Server/Client game. I assume u use Sockets..but is there another way as well?

I have wanted to make a TCG style Cilent/Server game but never learned how.

Sorthious (guest) 29 Jan 2013 23:24

Not sure if this will help but Ultima Online has many freeshards(Servers) and a lot of the source Files are free for download. This may give people some idea of how to implement some of these things. RUNUO.com has a forum discussing the game…try searching for RUNUO Server v2.0…this is a good start…Oh, and UltimaOnline is a MMORPG but if you can find some of the scripts that are used in game I think they may be of great help.

Re: Multiplayer and networking

rbwhitaker 30 Jan 2013 16:44

All of your suggestions are great. Keep them coming!

Re: Multiplayer and networking

Jason Yarber 21 Feb 2013 19:16

Here I cast my vote for a networking tutorial in the XNA series. I'd like to see tutorials for PC games where you can enter the ip of the server, as well as tutorials that make use of the XNA framework for making online games for the Xbox.

Daryl (guest) 01 Apr 2013 11:36

I came here to request some networking tutorials too, but found lots of people have already requested so thought that I would just add my +1 to the request :)

Great work on the tutorials so far. Maybe cover the differences between C# sockets and the XNA way of doing things?

Re: Multiplayer and networking

Alador 31 Jul 2013 21:01

Hey guys,

A tutorial about networking would be really great !

Thanks for all tuts and for converting your XNA project to a Monogame one :)