List: Game Networking | Curated by Daposto

Oct 31, 2021
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Game NetworkingWith the creation of an ECS game networking library, I was introduced to a sea of information. In this series, I will try to describe this information briefly and concisely without going too deep into implementations.
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QUIC as Game Networking ProtocolA game network developer knows about TCP head-of-line-blocking(HOL) and uses a solution such a NetCode IO (C++, with Go, Rust, C#…
Oct 31, 2021
Oct 31, 2021
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Game Networking (9) — Bonus, Overwatch ModelOverwatch uses a command model. This article will put all the previous articles together into this model. There are many other models, and…
Jul 31, 2020
Jul 31, 2020
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Game Networking (8)— Present, past future where am ITiming in the game world is of importance. The server contains always the oldest data because the data from the server comes from clients…
Jul 3, 2020
Jul 3, 2020
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Game Networking (7) — Deterministic vs StateEither something can be predicted or cannot be. Some games work fully deterministic, like the age of empires (uses a deterministic…
Jul 3, 2020
Jul 3, 2020
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Game Networking (6) — Event, Input, Command Ring/Buffer/priority/QueueFor event-driven games (see this article) there is a concept called ‘buffering’. Like any other concept, there are different names for…
Jul 3, 2020
Jul 3, 2020
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Game Networking (5) —  Compression, delta encoding, interest management, bit packingWe want data to be as small as possible for most games. There are a lot of fabulous ways to do this. There are three categories:
Jul 2, 2020
Jul 2, 2020
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Game Networking (4)— Client-Side  Extrapolation a.k.a. Dead Reckoning/ InterpolationClient-Side Extrapolation is about figuring out the new value based on the latest information. Given positions A, B, and C it will…
Jul 2, 2020
Jul 2, 2020
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Game Networking (3) - RTT, PING, latency, lagThese terms are very nice, they mean different things in different fields. So lets carefully examine them.
Jul 2, 2020
Jul 2, 2020
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Game Networking (3) - RTT, PING, latency, lagThese terms are very nice, they mean different things in different fields. So lets carefully examine them.
Jul 2, 2020
Jul 2, 2020
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Game Networking (2) - Time, Tick, Clock SynchronisationEveryone is talking about time synchronization, however, it isn’t about time at all! It’s about ‘timing’. I initially assumed everyone was…
Jul 1, 2020
Jul 1, 2020
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Game Networking (1) - Interval and ticks.Confused with: Tick, Lockstep, Timestep, Tickrate, Server Tick, Client Update Rate, refresh rate, frame rate, sync tick, command frame…
Jul 1, 2020
Jul 1, 2020
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Game Networking (0) — IntroductionHi! This is probably the thousandth blog post and or article you read about game networking. While writing a game networking library in…
Jul 1, 2020
Jul 1, 2020