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The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803232614
Pages 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Henrique Campos Henrique Campos
Profile icon 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 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

Well, it’s time to wrap this chapter up! In this chapter, we discussed what caching is and how it allows us to save bandwidth. We learned how to implement it for custom spaceship sprites in our game. For that, we saw how we can use the HTTPRequest node to download files over the internet by making HTTP requests. We also implemented a custom Monitor to see how much data we saved throughout a play session by caching textures. Finally, we saw how caching can go beyond image and text files and the possibility of using REST APIs to download all sorts of files using HTTP.

With that, my fellow Godot Engine developers, we reach the end of our journey!

We started as people who didn’t know how to send a simple message to another computer, and became fully fledged network engineers ready to create the games of our dreams and allow players to have a shared experience, enjoy their time together, and build communities around the world. Congratulations on completing this...

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