nakama VS LiteNetLib

nakama: https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama

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you can do that, but for what platform? html5? windows? android?, the most easiest way is use firestore a service from firebase (offer a free tier), it is the easiest way not the better, other way is use a service like nakama that is more professional and something in the middle can be mmm pocketbase or supabase.

I recommend the backend solution called Nakama since you’re using Godot: https://heroiclabs.com/

You could create all this yourself, or you can use existing solutions which handle all this (and much more I didn't mention). One that I'm aware of that works with Godot is Nakama. They have a paid hosting option, or you can host the application yourself.

I read using nakama server for this is convinient. https://heroiclabs.com/

Does anyone have recommendations on what to use? I've done a bit of research and found https://heroiclabs.com/. It's a bit unclear to me if it actually supports server side state because it talks about 'hosts' a bit, but I think it does...and it seems like you can host it yourself to avoid the $600 a MONTH! pricetag. But any other recommendations? Has anyone used heroic before?

You might be interested in Nakama server from https://heroiclabs.com/

Depending on how much effort you want to put in to this, you might consider something like Nakama: https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama

There have been mentions of Normcore, Fish-Net, and Nakama as well.

I personally use this LiteNetLib

Been using LiteNetLib for our current project and it is pretty nice

Currently I'm using LiteNetLib (https://github.com/RevenantX/LiteNetLib) and it's working pretty well. There is a little input lag but it's more than acceptable.

Check LiteNetLib. Judging by your requirements simply passing coordinates back and forth between two clients should work. Designate one of the games as host and the other as client, but just pass coordinates would work over LAN. Optimise from there if gameplay isn’t thet smoot by lerping between past and newly received coordinates.

For networking, file IO, and streams in general, there's Korio and for Java; for just networking, there's LiteNetLib for C#; for what looks like data streams in general, there's Okio also for Java; and Tokio for multi-threaded IO in Rust.

I've been a bit "Unity offline", and even more so when it comes to networking solutions, because of my real job :), but LiteNetLib is quite good. There's also a new HLAPI solution called FishNet which seems very interesting.

This might be handy for you :) https://github.com/RevenantX/LiteNetLib

they might be using LiteNetLib as their low level transport.

You definitely want to a low level API (LLAPI) instead, like f.ex. LiteNetLib, ENet, lidgren or similar. I haven't touched anyone of these recently, except the first one a year-ish ago, so I won't say anything about where they stand today.