re: [GD-General] Online Gaming

[Steve R. <St...@no...>]

The book Game Programming Gems 3 contains 9 articles in the "Network and =
Multiplayer" section that span about 90 pages... Since I'm not a networking=
 expert, I can't really attest to the quality of the articles - but my =
guess is that they are fairly good and written from real game experience.

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-Steve


>>> bri...@py... 01/24/03 11:15AM >>>
>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




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