KCP VS netcode.io

Compare KCP vs netcode.io and see what are their differences.

netcode.io

A protocol for secure client/server connections over UDP (by mas-bandwidth)
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KCP netcode.io
7 6
14,629 2,370
- 1.0%
2.9 8.6
10 days ago 19 days ago
C C
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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KCP

Posts with mentions or reviews of KCP. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-30.

netcode.io

Posts with mentions or reviews of netcode.io. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-06.
  • Multiplayer Networking Solutions
    19 projects | /r/gamedev | 6 Oct 2022
    yojimbo/ netcode/ reliable, all developped by Glenn Fidler, author of GafferOnGames
  • I just want force-feedback
    1 project | /r/starcitizen | 2 Oct 2022
    Man-in-the-middling the netcode. From what I can tell, this would work ... but the packets are encrypted. It appears the netcode is largely based on this library, that they sponsor. There appear to be some differences from the "standard" but there are too many similarities to not have a common ancestor. I got pretty far on this, just to at least verify there was encryption. Even if it is not encrypted, it appears to be a custom protocol.
  • What's an actually useful netcode package!
    2 projects | /r/gamedev | 27 Sep 2022
    I use netcode.io - if you have read gafferongames posts, this is made by the guy.
  • Why is client FPS limited by netcode?
    1 project | /r/starcitizen | 10 Jan 2022
    You may not be there yet with your developer skills but if you are curious you can have a look at the netcode source code. I'm not sure if they're still using it since the switch to Lumberyard and Amazon Services but it's a really good and strong codebase: https://github.com/networkprotocol/netcode
  • Should I write my game server in C so that I can use the latest version of the netcode protocol?
    1 project | /r/gamedev | 18 Dec 2021
    I found that there is a relatively new protocol called netcode.io that provides UDP-like connection between client-server.
  • P2P vs Client Server
    2 projects | /r/gamedev | 4 Sep 2021
    If you want to learn more about networking for game in C++, Glenn Fiedler has great articles from the basics to advanced topics: https://www.gafferongames.com/ He also created a library for client-server networking: https://github.com/networkprotocol/netcode (He has a big name in networking, totally recommend reading his articles if you want to learn more about networking)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing KCP and netcode.io you can also consider the following projects:

Simple-WebSocket-Server

yojimbo - A network library for client/server games written in C++

ENet-CSharp - Reliable UDP networking library

libquic - QUIC, a multiplexed stream transport over UDP

RakNet - RakNet is a cross platform, open source, C++ networking engine for game programmers.

µWebSockets - Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications

GameNetworkingSockets - Reliable & unreliable messages over UDP. Robust message fragmentation & reassembly. P2P networking / NAT traversal. Encryption.

C++ REST SDK - The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.

wdt - Warp speed Data Transfer (WDT) is an embeddedable library (and command line tool) aiming to transfer data between 2 systems as fast as possible over multiple TCP paths.

Muduo - Event-driven network library for multi-threaded Linux server in C++11

Simple-Web-Server