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.
• Server In-game Protocol Design and Optimization 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.
• Info Gamer YouTube Channel has great videos for PUN2, some of the intersting playlists are: How to Make a Multiplayer Game, Unity 2019: Multiplayer Tutorials with PUN 2 and PUN 2 Helpful Tips.
• Build Multiplayer Games With Unity 2019 And Photon (PUN 2).

Packages and Game Kits

• PlayMaker is the go-to visual scripting plugin for Unity and supports Photon multiplayer scripting.
• Smooth Sync supports PUN 2 with improved transform synchronization.
• 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.