Summary
In this final chapter, you learned about basic networking concepts. We had a look at sockets, different network architectures, and protocols. We incorporated this knowledge to our game, and extended the existing design to cope with new challenges of networking. By using SFML's Network module, we implemented a mechanism to communicate with other players on the same keyboard, the local area network, or the Internet. Although we had to make compromises in some places, you should have learned a lot of techniques which you can eventually apply in another game.
Along with this chapter, also ends the book! It has been a long ride all the way and we can only thank you for reading through our pages patiently. Finally, our aircraft top-scroller has reached a state where it is not only playable, but contains many features to create an immersive experience. We began with rendering, resource and input handling, and went over to shape different states and menus with a graphical user interface....
