#206 – April 09, 2017
How does Multiplayer Game sync their state?
In multiplayer game, one of the most complex issue is to keep all player's state in sync with server state. There are a few good articles around this topic on the internet. However, some details are missing here and there, which may be confusing for beginners in field of game programming, I hope I can clear things up in this article.
I wrote a programming language. Here’s how you can, too.
Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working on a programming language called Pinecone. I wouldn’t call it mature yet, but it already has enough features working to be usable.
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