GameNetworkingResources VS AmalgamEngine

The list maintained here favors content for actual game developers: https://github.com/ThusSpokeNomad/GameNetworkingResources

Here is a list of resources: A Curated List of Game Network Programming Resources

Check these articles here to learn how game netcode works. The answer to your question (and a lot more) will come naturally after a bit of reading. https://github.com/ThusWroteNomad/GameNetworkingResources

Honestly this is all largely a completely solved problem space. The article is just way out in left field seemingly fully oblivious to how game netcode currently works, which certainly isn't with AI prediction.

Look at actual game engine docs like this one from Valve https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensatin... or this one from Halo https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/closer-look-halo-infinite-...

But tldr is the only thing a client ever predicts is their own inputs, which of course can't really ever end up wrong later on. There's no other prediction happening (eg, the position of other players is not predicted)

And then for anti-cheat/optimization purposes the server also only sends positions for enemies that could be visible soon, which is done by taping into the same map chunking logic that would be used for asset streaming.

There's a ton of other great resources on this topic here https://github.com/ThusWroteNomad/GameNetworkingResources

But you'll find they all largely do the same basic thing. There's nuance in some of the rules and what state is replicated and what isn't (such as server side or client side ragdolls), but the general architecture tends to be the same. And without a fundamental shift in connectivity, seems pretty unlikely to change.

https://github.com/MFatihMAR/Game-Networking-Resources (This is a list maintained by someone else, and it has some amazing things in it, and far more technical leaning than what I maintain).

I made a video series on networking theory for virtual worlds that has been well received: https://youtu.be/0wOZusuMIIM

I've also been working on an engine for the past few years if you want some code examples: https://github.com/Net5F/AmalgamEngine

I've been working on an open-source engine for virtual worlds for the past couple years, and it's finally at the point where I can build a simple reference world. This world is going to have simple minigames for people to play together while they chat. I need help deciding on which games to implement, though. Here are the constraints:

Repo

If you want a real-world example, I'm a solo dev doing something of the sort. The readme in my repo has a chronological list of the steps I've taken. I have some additional stuff in there though since I have a 3D world (isometric sprites) and live tile map editing.