Relay Servers and NAT Traversal — Roadmap Step & Resources
Getting players behind different routers to connect to each other
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Multiplayer & Backend Game Development
Before this step
Study resources
- Microsoft PlayFab Documentation (Article) — Microsoft's official documentation for PlayFab's game backend and live ops services. Background reading/viewing for: Relay Servers and NAT Traversal.
- GDC Vault (Video) — Talks from the Game Developers Conference, which has published extensively on multiplayer netcode. Relevant to: Relay Servers and NAT Traversal.
Part of
- Client-Server and Peer-to-Peer Architectures — section
- Multiplayer & Backend Game Development roadmap — the full learning path