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Ensure player synchronization and coexistence in a game world

Mitigate latency in your multiplayer games to design a seamless shared experience

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The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0 guides you in exploring the built-in network API for online multiplayer games, offering practical knowledge through concrete use cases. Throughout the book, you'll assume the role of a network engineer in a fictional indie game studio, tackling real-world requests from your peers and gaining expertise in adding new network features to the studio's games. Following step-by-step instructions, you’ll go from making your first network handshake to optimizing online gameplay. You’ll learn how to sync players and pass data over the internet as you add online multiplayer features to a top-down shooter adventure game. This book puts you in a fictional game project team where you set up your first online server before advancing to creating an online chat system and transitioning local gameplay to go online. With a focus on implementing multiplayer features, you’ll create shared world adventures and learn optimization techniques to allow more players to join your virtual world. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to set up a client-server network, implement remote procedure calls (RPCs), sync node properties remotely, and optimize your games to create smooth online multiplayer experiences.

Who is this book for?

If you’re involved in game development with Godot and want to add multiplayer capabilities to enrich the shared gaming experience, then this book is for you. You’ll also find this book useful if you’re a network engineer looking to gain hands-on experience with practical projects. To get the most out of this book, a prior understanding of the Godot Engine design philosophy, the GDScript programming language, the SceneTree structure, and how nodes work is essential.

What you will learn

Understand the fundamentals of networking and remote data exchange between computers

Use the Godot game engine's built-in API to set up a network for players

Master remote procedure calls and learn how to make function calls on objects remotely

Enhance your GDScript proficiency to get the most out of this powerful language

Explore industry-standard solutions for common online multiplayer challenges

Improve your networking skills and discover how to turn single-player games into multiplayer experiences

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ROBERTO HILSACA Jan 10, 2024

I would recommend for new developers looking to expand their knowledge in setting up multiplayer connectivity but I would in fact also apply knowledge on how servers work and what configuration you need when handling outbound connections. Like mentioned before it sets a foundation for initial configuration and understand of cross communication using Godot.

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Tyler Dec 23, 2023

I've been interested in developing multiplayer games for a while now and this book has been a wonderful guide! This book discusses a lot of useful topics such as authentication, lobbies, lag compensation, and ways to decrease bandwidth usage. The author walks the reader through several different types of multiplayer games and provides easy-to-follow steps while introducing new and useful tools. This book should be picked up by anyone who is interested in developing multiplayer games with Godot.

Delano Lourenco Jan 05, 2024

The book takes you through everything a multiplayer game would need. I am a novice in multiplayer and using this book I have been able to setup free Peer To Peer using Epic Online Services in Godot that has lobby and sessions too for free. I liked that the book touched on debugging, profiling and optimizing bandwidth. It also mentioned lag compensation. In the future I would like to learn about advanced networking such as fixed timestep, rollback netcode, input lag compensation and client side prediction.

Raheel Dec 22, 2023

The book starts with outlining all the basics of networking with Godot. It focuses heavily on how to use Godot's UDP and RPC libraries. Then it goes on to provide practical examples of quite a few games which cover all sorts of game use cases like turn-based, real-time, etc. This is a very comprehensive book get get started with multiplayer and client-server programming.

Anonymous Jan 01, 2024

The author and the included GitHub repository do a great job of stepping you through the creation of a client-server multiplayer setup.

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