String Augmented Reality Launches Today sees the public launch of the excellent Augmented Reality plugin for Unity from String. Focusing intensively on creating their technology for use with Unity, String have been working with a number of respected Unity developers to create showcase material as they have worked through an intensive beta stage over the past year. At today’s Augmented Reality Summit, String will unveil some of their latest developments that go far beyond what they have teased so far. String touts one of its key selling points as being fast, stable and easy to use, and they are keen to remind Unity developers that they aim to bring a formerly somewhat inaccessible technology to a new audience of developers thanks to their easy to use toolset. In a press release combined with today’s launch, Alan Maxwell, CEO and founder states “We are delighted to officially launch String™ to the world.
Streaming Video Hosting | Live Video Streaming Services Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-game Protocol Design and Optimization Overview Designing first-person action games for Internet play is a challenging process. Having robust on-line gameplay in your action title, however, is becoming essential to the success and longevity of the title. While broadband has been held out as a panacea for all of the current woes of on-line gaming, broadband is not a simple solution allowing developers to ignore the implications of latency and other network factors in game designs. Your game must behave well in this world. Basic Architecture of a Client / Server Game Most action games played on the net today are modified client / server games. With this in mind, the typical client / server game engine architecture generally looks like this: For this discussion, all of the messaging and coordination needed to start up the connection between client and server is omitted. Each time the client makes a full pass through this loop, the "frametime" is used for determining how much simulation is needed on the next frame. Conclusion
Viewbix - Video Marketing Platform Austin GDC 2008 - Robust, Efficient Networking Robust, Efficient Networking Austin GDC 2008 Ben Garney, Pushbutton Labs Lots of games have bad networking. Not a lot of games have great networking. Learn about the ingredients and design decisions that are needed to keep your game running smoothly in even the worst network situations. Note: KeyNote won't export the talk as PPT. Video Of The Talk MP3 Of The Talk From Austin Download The Talk (PDF) Here are links to some useful related resources: OpenTNL, the GPL-ed networking library I referenced. Please contact Ben with any questions or comments at Information about the other talk I gave at Austin, Unlocking Flash To Build The Next Great MMO
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Game Development Tutorials – Networking for Game Programmers UDP vs. TCP What is the best way to send data between machines? Sending and Receiving Packets This article shows how to send and receive UDP packets using BSD sockets, giving you source code that works across MacOS X, Windows and Unix. Virtual Connection over UDP Learn how to create your own virtual connection between two machines on top of UDP. Reliability and Flow Control Learn how to implement your own reliability system on top of UDP using sequence numbers and acks. Debugging Multiplayer Games Explains the techniques used by professional game developers to debug multiplayer games. What Every Programmer Needs To Know About Game Networking A brief overview of the history of PC multiplayer games. Floating Point Determinism Is it possible to get exactly the same floating point result (down to the bit-level) each time a program is run?
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