Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming

Chapter 10. Network Programming

	“…it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer.”
	--Sun System & Network Admin manual

KEY TOPICS

• How the Internet Really Works

• The Programmer's Perspective: Sockets

• Clients

• A Simple TCP Server

• Multiclient Servers

• UDP Servers

• Preventing Socket Blocks

• Designing Client-Server Games

• Massively Multiplayer Games

• In Closing

Playing against human opponents is more rewarding than playing against a machine or, even worse, playing alone. Games such as football, chess, and hundreds of others teach us how competing against an opponent creates addiction— a desire to play repeatedly, well beyond the shorter entertainment value of automatic opponents.

Ever since the first multiplayer games appeared, their ...