Peer-to-Peer Architecture — Roadmap Step & Resources
Trade-offs of P2P for smaller-scale or cooperative games
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Multiplayer & Backend Game Development
Before this step
Study resources
- Gaffer on Games (Article) — Glenn Fiedler's widely referenced articles on game networking, reliability and lag compensation. Background reading/viewing for: Peer-to-Peer Architecture.
- GDC Vault (Video) — Talks from the Game Developers Conference, which has published extensively on multiplayer netcode. Relevant to: Peer-to-Peer Architecture.
Part of
- Client-Server and Peer-to-Peer Architectures — section
- Multiplayer & Backend Game Development roadmap — the full learning path