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The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0

You're reading from The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0 Harness the power of Godot Engine's GDScript network API to connect players in multiplayer games

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803232614

Length 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

GDScript

Tools

Godot

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Henrique Campos

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Handshaking and Networking

2. Chapter 1: Setting up a Server FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Sending and Receiving Data

4. Chapter 3: Making a Lobby to Gather Players Together

5. Chapter 4: Creating an Online Chat

6. Part 2:Creating Online Multiplayer Mechanics

7. Chapter 5: Making an Online Quiz Game

8. Chapter 6: Building an Online Checkers Game

9. Chapter 7: Developing an Online Pong Game

10. Chapter 8: Creating an Online Co-Op Platformer Prototype

11. Chapter 9: Creating an Online Adventure Prototype

12. Part 3:Optimizing the Online Experience

13. Chapter 10: Debugging and Profiling the Network

14. Chapter 11: Optimizing Data Requests

15. Chapter 12: Implementing Lag Compensation

16. Chapter 13: Caching Data to Decrease Bandwidth

17. Index

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Technical requirements

Through this chapter, we are going to use the fourth folder of our Godot Engine project repository, available through the following link:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/The-Essential-Guide-to-Creating-Multiplayer-Games-with-Godot-4.0

After importing the project into your Godot Engine project manager, open it and navigate to the res://04.creating-an-online-chat folder. Then, open the ChatControl.tscn and ChatControl.gd files. They are going to be the focus of this chapter.

Coming next in this chapter, we are going to learn the basic concepts of reliable and unreliable data exchange and how channels work so we have the ground set for our chat system.

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Authors (1)

Henrique Campos

Henrique Campos

Henrique “Pigdev” Campos is an indie game developer and game designer working in the industry for years. Started as a University teacher in 2015 in the Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence chairs and working in the GDQuest team from 2018 to 2022, Henrique is also an independent consultant for studios and schools. Under the alias of Pigdev, Henrique creates game development content on his YouTube channel making games, assets, ebooks, and courses that can be found in his itchio profile. Being the author of "The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0", Henrique paved the way for Godot users to make incredible shared online experiences while helping them discover the engine's bleeding edge features.

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