You're reading from The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0

Product type Book

Published in Dec 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803232614

Pages 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

GDScript

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Henrique Campos

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Handshaking and Networking

2. Chapter 1: Setting up a Server

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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To get the most out of this book

This book uses Godot Engine’s ENet library implementation to create several prototypes that explore the boundaries of this technology. To get the most out of this book, you need to understand how Godot Engine works, how to code in GDScript, how to use Git, and the basics of the UDP, TCP, and HTTP protocols.

Software/hardware covered in the book	Operating system requirements
Godot Engine 4.0	Windows, macOS, or Linux

Throughout the book, we use the projects available in the book’s GitHub repository. This book focuses on the networking aspects of each project, so to save you time, you have ready-to-use projects available so you don’t need to bother with implementing other features that are not related to network engineering. In that sense, having Git installed is recommended, although not mandatory because you can download the code directly through the links provided as well.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.