re: [GD-General] Online Gaming

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

>Can anyone recommend any good "Programming Network Games"=
 books?

There are none.  There's one book published by PRIMA called 
Multiplayer Game Programming that is fairly close to useless. =
 There 
is another book out that I can't remember that _sounds_ like it's=
 
really good, but it's very expensive and the authors don't have=
 much 
street cred so I'm a little leery of recommending it.

I've been meaning to write a basic document on the fundamentals=
 of 
multiplayer game programming, but it's such a complicated topic=
 that 
it's hard to really describe.  Each piece is easy, but you can't=
 get 
it working until ALL the pieces are in place at once.

Brian