The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0

The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0

Henrique Campos

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Packt Publishing
Año de edición:
2023
ISBN:
9781803232614
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Level up your Godot 4 networking skills with this comprehensive guide featuring dedicated servers and persistent worlds, illustrated with key images in colorKey FeaturesEnsure player synchronization and coexistence in a game worldMitigate latency in your multiplayer games to design a seamless shared experienceOptimize and debug your games using profilers and monitors to visualize performancePurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionThe Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0 guides you in exploring the built-in network API for online multiplayer games, offering practical knowledge through concrete use cases.Throughout the book, you’ll assume the role of a network engineer in a fictional indie game studio, tackling real-world requests from your peers and gaining expertise in adding new network features to the studio’s games. Following step-by-step instructions, you’ll go from making your first network handshake to optimizing online gameplay. You’ll learn how to sync players and pass data over the internet as you add online multiplayer features to a top-down shooter adventure game.This book puts you in a fictional game project team where you set up your first online server before advancing to creating an online chat system and transitioning local gameplay to go online. With a focus on implementing multiplayer features, you’ll create shared world adventures and learn optimization techniques to allow more players to join your virtual world.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to set up a client-server network, implement remote procedure calls (RPCs), sync node properties remotely, and optimize your games to create smooth online multiplayer experiences.What you will learnUnderstand the fundamentals of networking and remote data exchange between computersUse the Godot game engine’s built-in API to set up a network for playersMaster remote procedure calls and learn how to make function calls on objects remotelyEnhance your GDScript proficiency to get the most out of this powerful languageExplore industry-standard solutions for common online multiplayer challengesImprove your networking skills and discover how to turn single-player games into multiplayer experiencesWho this book is forIf you’re involved in game development with Godot and want to add multiplayer capabilities to enrich the shared gaming experience, then this book is for you. You’ll also find this book useful if you’re a network engineer looking to gain hands-on experience with practical projects. To get the most out of this book, a prior understanding of the Godot Engine design philosophy, the GDScript programming language, the SceneTree structure, and how nodes work is essential.Table of ContentsSetting up a server for multiplayer gameSending and receiving dataMaking a lobby to gather players togetherCreating an online chatMaking an online quiz gameBuilding an online checkers gameDeveloping an online PongDesigning an online co-op platformerCreating a top-down adventure gameDebugging and profiling the networkOptimizing data requestsImplementing prediction and interpolationCaching data to decrease bandwidth

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