3rd Party Tutorials

Aside from our own tutorials, there is a lot more to read about networking and multiplayer game development.
Below is a short list of third party articles and tutorials that might be of interest.

About Making Multiplayer Games

• 1500 Archers, architecture, implementation and lessons learned creating the multiplayer code for Age of Empires 1 & 2 games. Old but still relevant!
• Why You Shouldn't Be Making an MMO, opens your eyes on the actual complexity of MMO game development.
• The Tech of Planetary Annihilation: ChronoCam gives great insight into an alternative approach to minimizing networked data.
• IT Hare has some interesting articles about network programming and other game development related topics.
• This paper by Valve is a good read about different techniques for "Lag Compensation".
• "Awesome Game Networking": Curated list of resources about gameplay network programming techniques and architectures.
• Unity - Photon Networking: by First Gear Games covers a lot of networking topics like "lobbies", "properties", "Synchronizing Data" and "RaiseEvent".

Packages and Game Kits

• PlayMaker is the go-to visual scripting plugin for Unity and supports Photon multiplayer scripting.
• PUN Multiplayer Add-On for the Opsive Character Controllers.
• PlayFab combined with Photon is everything you could need: User Accounts, Inventory, Storage, Leaderboards and much more!

Unity Tutorials

• Tutorials section on Unity website, currently there are beginner's tutorials only, but more are coming.
• Collection of video lessons for beginner and intermediate Unity developers, includes challenges and examples.
• Another collection of various Unity tutorials from Unity Cookie.

Networking Technology

• Guide to Network Programming using sockets programming with examples in C++.
• Network Basics: TCP, UDP, TCP/IP and OSI Model.
• TCP/IP Primer.