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Syncing entities in a totally shared multiplayer environment

Typically, networked games designate a server (or host player) as being authoritative over all state shared between the players. Clients still simulate their own state, but also continuously ...
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Event-driven vs state synchronizing networking model

I was going through the Tribes network model and the network model used in Quake3. What I understand is that Tribes is more of an event based model where as the Quake model uses game states and delta ...
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Packet handling system architecture?

I'm working on a multiplayer Flash game (ActionScript 3) with an accompanying server written in Python and I'd like some tips regarding networking, and specifically, the handling of packets and ...
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Server architecture software side

I'm making a game some like Terraria. I have a couple of prototypes, but most of them use a "entity-component-system"(ESC) and some custom terrain implementation. Now I've reached the part where I ...
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How can I refactor my code to use fewer singletons?

I started a component based, networked game (so far only working on the server). I know why singletons can be bad, but I can't think of another way to implement the same thing. So far I have: A ...
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Best peer-to-peer game architecture

Consider a setup where game clients: have quite small computing resources (mobile devices, smartphones) are all connected to a common router (LAN, hotspot etc) The users want to play a multiplayer ...
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Loadbalancing Questions

I have been learning networking for about 4 months. Wrote a single standalone Multiplayer server and succeeded with authoritative approach. Now I want to extend it by splitting the single server into ...
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Would it be too much overhead to keep a HashMap of variables on a server per object for the purpose of syncing object changes with the client?

I am currently writing a server for a multiplayer game. I am trying to find a good solution for synchronizing GameObjects across the server. The server sends each client a snapshot of every object in ...
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How to keep a data structure synchronized over a network?

Context In the game I'm working on (a sort of a point and click graphic adventure), pretty much everything that happens in the game world is controlled by an action manager that is structured a bit ...
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Best solution for multiplayer realtime Android game

I plan to make multiplayer realtime game for Android (2-8 players), and I consider, which solution for multiplayer organization is the best: Make server on PC, and client on mobile, all communition ...
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MMO architecture - Highly Scalable with Reporting capabilities

A friend of mine is asking me to help out on a project of his, I have done a small amount of game development before, but mainly do application and enterprise development these days. He is asking me ...
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Pub/Sub or message passing in multiplayer server backend?

For my masters thesis I'm going to develop a scalable multiplayer server for locationbased games. It's going to be a "service oriented architecture" e.g. one dedicated service for positions, one for ...
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Information on seamless MMO server architecture

I'm looking for any material on seamless MMO servers! I do have a few articles in the "Massively Multiplayer Game Development" books and "Game Programming Gems 5." Has anyone experience on that topic ...
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How to handle netcode?

I'm interested in evaluating the different ways that the netcode can "hook into" a game engine. I am designing a multiplayer game now, and so far I have determined that I need to (at the very least) ...
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Push or Pull Input Data In the Game Logic?

In the process of preparing my game for networking I'm adding a layer of seperation between the physical input (mouse/keyboard) and the actual game "engine"/logic. All input that has any relation to ...
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Multiplayer game communication framework for mac/ios

(Cross post from stackoverflow) I am creating a multiplayer 2D game for Mac and iOS devices. I'll be using cocso2d for graphics/game engine, however I am largely blank on what to use for multiplayer ...
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Net code: What are your expected and max latency and packet loss targets?

When doing the net code for a video game what sort of latency targets and packet loss rates do you design around? To be more specific I have my net code working local network only at the moment. I ...
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Server-client communication: Quick and verbose or involved and compact?

TL;DR: Does the short development time required for HTTP/XML offset its size issues compared to developing a custom protocol? As some of you might have divined; I'm currently working on a turn-based ...
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What is involved for a simple UDP game?

I once tried to write a simple game with UDP in a week as a throwaway test. It went horribly. I threw it away early. The main problem i had was restoring the game state of all players/enemies/objects ...
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Networking Pong Clone

I have the fundamentals of TCP sockets, UDP communication etc, but can't find much on how to apply these to a real time game environment. I have a Pong clone, with 4 players, and need to synchronise ...