Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model

1. enet

   1 4 2,810 6.1 C

   ENet reliable UDP networking library

2. SaaSHub

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3. naia

   2 4 937 8.6 Rust

   a cross-platform (including Wasm!) networking library built in Rust. Intended to make multiplayer game development dead-simple & lightning-fast

   

4. tnl2

   3 1 25 - C

   High-level networking API for real-time simulations with primitives for remote procedure call and object state replication

5. GameNetworkingSockets

   4 36 8,384 8.3 C++

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

   

   GameNetworkingSockets from Valve. Maybe not middleware enough? You have to implement the serialization and a state update strategy yourself.

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

   https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets

6. SLikeNet

   5 4 410 0.0 HTML

   SLikeNet™ is an Open Source/Free Software cross-platform network engine written in C++ and specifially designed for games (and applications which have comparable requirements on a network engine like games) building upon the discontinued RakNet network engine which had more than 13 years of active development.

   

7. GameNetworkingResources

   6 10 7,594 6.2 C

   A Curated List of Multiplayer Game Network Programming Resources

   shameless plug: https://github.com/0xFA11/GameNetworkingResources

8. Quake3e

   7 29 1,255 8.0 C

   Improved Quake III Arena engine

   

   Talking about Unlagged, I would kill for a clear explanation (with diagrams!) of various netcode improvements in it, OSP, CPMA and QL.

   I'm forced to try to piece together a mental model by finding crumbs on the web, with the current situation:

   https://playmorepromode.com/guides/cpma-client-settings

   https://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=2548041#pid2548771

   https://old.reddit.com/r/QuakeChampions/comments/9jd3wv/for_...

   PS: the modern way of enjoying Q3 is https://github.com/ec-/Quake3e or CNQ3, these days. Don't know about https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3

9. ioq3

   8 16 2,457 7.6 C

   The ioquake3 community effort to continue supporting/developing id's Quake III Arena

   

   Talking about Unlagged, I would kill for a clear explanation (with diagrams!) of various netcode improvements in it, OSP, CPMA and QL.

   I'm forced to try to piece together a mental model by finding crumbs on the web, with the current situation:

   https://playmorepromode.com/guides/cpma-client-settings

   https://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=2548041#pid2548771

   https://old.reddit.com/r/QuakeChampions/comments/9jd3wv/for_...

   PS: the modern way of enjoying Q3 is https://github.com/ec-/Quake3e or CNQ3, these days. Don't know about https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3

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