Comments on: Game Networking Resources

By: Robert Blanchet

Robert Blanchet — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:02:44 +0000

Looks like someone let the opentnl.org domain expire. No matter, both it and the sourceforge links were out of date.

TNL and newer versions are maintained by Mark Frohnmayer, etc here:
http://github.com/nardo/tnl2

By: Glenn Fiedler

Glenn Fiedler — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:12:07 +0000

no worries dave, thanks for helping out

By: Dave Cahill

Dave Cahill — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:06:11 +0000

@rajend3 – here’s another link to The Tribes Networking Model: http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~jciehl/Public/educ/GAMA/2008/tribes_networking_model.pdf

@Glenn – Thanks for the list of resources, enjoying reading through them.

By: Glenn Fiedler

Glenn Fiedler — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:21:34 +0000

http://www.codewhore.com/links.html

By: rajend3

rajend3 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:32:01 +0000

I just tried the link for The Tribes Networking Model but it doesn’t point to the article.

By: Glenn Fiedler

Glenn Fiedler — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:30:15 +0000

awesome, thanks gizard!

By: gizard

gizard — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:50:05 +0000

Gamasutra also features the classic “1500 Archers on a 28.8″ which talks about the networking architecture behind Age of Empires, and has the fundamentals of networking a RTS game: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3094/1500_archers_on_a_288_network_.php

A bit old too, but worth reading is “The Internet sucks!” the problems faced by the X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter developers: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3374/the_internet_sucks_or_what_i_.php

A more detailed article about “dumb” prediction “Dead Reckoning Latency Hiding”: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3230/dead_reckoning_latency_hiding_for_.php

And another, this one from the Valve guys again, about their lag compensation techniques with pictures to help visualize what’s going on under the hoods: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_Networking

I hope it helps!

By: Glenn Fiedler

Glenn Fiedler — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:42:04 +0000

thanks liam, updated

By: Liam

Liam — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:18:31 +0000

The Tribes Engine Network Architecture is available from the gamasutra archive http://www.gamasutra.com/features/gdcarchive/2000/index.htm

By: Glenn Fiedler

Glenn Fiedler — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:49:40 +0000

thanks ben, thats a great talk i saw that a while back – i especially like your suggestion to send the same size packets at a steady rate, this matches what i have discovered as well

i have a big gdc talk this year so i hope to see you there, i think you’ll dig it, it’s a pretty out there technique compared to the standard client/server approach, but it’s a natural fit for a simulation heavy coop game (like an open world streaming physics game…)

cheers