Hey, I''ve programming games for a few years now, but I''ve never tried any sort of Multiplayer or Network programming for my games... I was wondering where I can find information on Multiplayer programming and what I should use (DirectPlay, Winsock, etc...) Thanks! - Jerec666

I personally use DPlay since I find it easy to use and I think it works great. However there is little documentation. You'll have to dig. It took me about an hour to get a client server going. And just a day or so to wrap the game around it.

The other option, Winsock is very much documented. I'm sure you could find books at Amazon.com. However it requires doing alot of things from scratch that DPlay does for you.

Either one will work. You just need to pick one and stick with it.

As far as I know there are no books on multiplayer programming. Every game is different so you really have to figure out how to use it on your own.

Ben
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Edited by - KalvinB on March 6, 2001 7:46:50 PM