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Unity Multiplayer Games

You're reading from Unity Multiplayer Games Take your gaming development skills into the online multiplayer arena by harnessing the power of Unity 4 or 3. This is not a dry tutorial ‚Äì it uses exciting examples and an enthusiastic approach to bring it all to life.

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849692328

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Alan R. Stagner

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Unity Networking – The Pong Game FREE CHAPTER

2. Photon Unity Networking – The Chat Client

3. Photon Server – Star Collector

4. Player.IO – Bot Wars

5. PubNub – The Global Chatbox

6. Entity Interpolation and Prediction

7. Server-side Hit Detection

Index

Summary

In this chapter, we covered:

The basics of UDP and reliable/unreliable communication
Setting up a lobby server
What a Network View is
How to serialize object state
How to send reliable RPCs
Hosting game servers and connecting to them
Registering servers with the lobby
The basics of dedicated servers
How to load levels in a networked game

We applied these concepts to create a multiplayer clone of Pong in Unity.

In the next chapter, we will cover a third-party alternative to Unity Networking, known as Photon Unity Networking.

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Unity Multiplayer Games

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Publisher: Packt

ISBN-13: 9781849692328

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Authors (1)

Stagner

Stagner

contacted on 6 may '16 __________ Alan R. Stagner is an independent developer. He was introduced to programming by his father, he sought out different ways to create games in a variety of languages. Most recently, he found the Unity game engine and was instantly hooked, and discovered his love of multiplayer game development. He has also dabbled in database and server programming from time to time, mostly involving PHP and MySQL with recent forays into ASP.NET

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