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

[Mads B. D. <ma...@ch...>]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, brian hook wrote:

> > 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?  

All of the above with a weight on architecture.

> It would be 
> tough to do a definitive survey on this.  Also, what types of games are 
> we talking about here?

Realtime mostly, but also, as discussed here recently, discussion on 
combining offline and online gameplay.


> 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.

OK - if someone else knows it I would like to hear about it. It does not 
look particulary advanced from the index. 

> 
> 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.

its 2*45 minutes, so, won't really get into detail, but I would like to be 
sure that the stuff "I once knew" is not totally outdated today. (Are 
games doing anything particulary more advanced than 
QuakeWorld/Quake2/Quake3 today?)

Mads

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