Multiplayer Networking Solutions

• Awesome-Game-Networking

  2 164 0.0

  A Curated List of Game Network Programming Resources

Awesome-Game-Networking Similar to this thread, bunch of info and link about stuff.

• RakNet

  6 3,029 0.0 HTML

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

  

Raknet No longer worked on but from what I've read, it's complete and working. It has been used in many games between 2000 - 2010

• InfluxDB

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• zig

  818 30,946 10.0 Zig

  General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

  

Zig is an up-and-coming language, meant to be an alternative to C. It's low level, high preformance and safer than C. It has very, very good C interop, to the point where the Zig compiler is also a C compiler.

• yojimbo

  5 2,390 8.8 C

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

  

yojimbo/ netcode/ reliable, all developped by Glenn Fidler, author of GafferOnGames

• TrinityCore

  39 9,114 9.9 C++

  TrinityCore Open Source MMO Framework (master = 10.2.6.54499, 3.3.5 = 3.3.5a.12340, wotlk_classic = 3.4.3.54261, cata classic = 4.4.0.54027)

  

TrinityCore Again, MMO library, but this one seems to operate under the assumption that your game is functionnaly similar to WoW.

• netcode.io

  6 2,379 8.5 C

  A protocol for secure client/server connections over UDP

  

yojimbo/ netcode/ reliable, all developped by Glenn Fidler, author of GafferOnGames

• Boost.Asio

  20 4,643 8.6 C++

  Asio C++ Library

Asio Extracted from the much bigger Boost C++ library, it's apparently a really good networking library. As a bonus it also handles async / threads. Here's a really good video tutorial by OneLoneCoder

• SaaSHub

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• reliable

  1 573 8.5 C

  A packet acknowledgement system for UDP

  

yojimbo/ netcode/ reliable, all developped by Glenn Fidler, author of GafferOnGames

• KCP

  7 14,781 2.9 C

  :zap: KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol

KCP Is a kind of protocol ( like UDP and TCP ) that is reliable like TCP but is faster, at to cost of slightly bigger bandwidth costs.

• librg

  1 1,225 5.0 C

  🚀 Making multi-player gamedev simpler since 2017

  

LibRG is an open-source, C99 header-only that handles actor relevancy, similar to Unreals Actor Relevancy Graph.

• Odin

  85 5,752 10.0 Odin

  Odin Programming Language

  

Odin is similar to Zig in it's goal, alternative to C. It's designed to be very high-performance, with data-oriented programming in mind. If your game is simulation intensive, this would be a nice alternative to c++.

• ezyfox-server

  1 551 6.7 Java

  A socket server (include SSL) supports realtime application, realtime game, MMORPG, messaging, chat and streaming data with TCP, UDP and Websocket

  

EzyFox-Server, just sumble upon while researching this post, it seems like an open-source alternative to smartfox.

• Nim

  348 16,104 9.9 Nim

  Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

  

If you really want to have the python dev experience for your server and high performance, you might want to take a look at Nim. Compiled, (optionally) Garbage Collected, Good C interop, C-like speed. Never heard of a game server built with it, but it seems viable.

• MessagePack

  22 1,380 8.1 Java

  MessagePack serializer implementation for Java / msgpack.org[Java]

  

MessagePack Similar to JSONs, just more compact, although not as much as the ones above. Still, it's usefull to retain some readability in your messages.

• FlatBuffers

  48 22,088 8.7 C++

  FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library

  

FlatBuffer also developed by Google. It's used by Cocos2d-x, a game engine , as serialization protocol, instead of JSON / XML / YAML.

• henet

  10 8 0.0 Haskell

  Haskell bindings for ENet

Enet already talked about in the thread

• Protobuf

  175 63,786 10.0 C++

  Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

  

ProtoBuf or Protocol Buffers are developped by google and are supported in many languages.

• Cap'n Proto

  66 11,215 9.2 C++

  Cap'n Proto serialization/RPC system - core tools and C++ library

  

Cap'n Proto, by the original protobuf developer. Overall a faster / improved version of protobuf. Speed is usually more desirable in games, depends on your needs.

• bevy

  574 32,489 9.9 Rust

  A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

  

If you're proficient with Rust, go for it, performance, memory safety, "easy" multi-threading, growing ecosystem. Bevy might be of interest, as an underlying framework / game world simulation.

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