Re: [GD-General] Information on approaches to networking games

[brian h. <bri...@py...>]

> I am looking for information on approaches to networking games 

That's awfully broad.  What do you mean by "approaches"?  As in overall 
architecture, specific communication protocols, compression and 
prediction methods, or something else or all of the above?  It would be 
tough to do a definitive survey on this.  Also, what types of games are 
we talking about here?

There are at least two trade books I've seen on the subject of 
networked games.  The first is "Multiplayer Game Programming" by Todd 
Barron.  I didn't like this book at all -- it doesn't discuss any form 
of networking that would be realistically used in a modern game today, 
and spends a significant amount of time on things unrelated to 
networking and multiplayer.

There is another book out called "Developer's Guide to Multiplayer 
Games" by Andrew Mulholland and Teijo Hakala:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?
isbn=1556228686

It looked significantly more promising to me, but since I haven't 
actually read it (and the price seems exhorbitant) I can't really 
comment.

All that aside, if it's a short lecture, you're probably not going to 
have time to get into any detail, so the general survey stuff you might 
find at Web sites may be good enough.

Brian