Raylib multiplayer?

[k-preslav]

I want to make a multiplayer game with raylib but all i can find is a GitHub issue from 3 years ago where they say about rnet but i cant find anywhere to download it and there is no documentation about it.

How can I make a multiplayer game in raylib???

[raysan5]

raylib does not support networking. I recommend using another library like nbnet.

[k-preslav]

Wasn't rnet developed at some point? What happened with it?

[raysan5]

that project was abbandoned some time ago. It was broken and nobody was ready to work on it. That's what happens with open source some times...

[k-preslav]

Im really sorry for that 🥲

[kevyonan]

Networking is a huge kettle of fish.
Different games require different kinds of network topology and network design & architecture.

If raylib was to add a form of networking, it'd have to be very flexible and bare-bones in order to provide developers ways to make different network designs.

[anstropleuton]

Not really, raylib can choose to not make very flexible design because it wouldn't be the point of raylib
raylib can have a basic (but powerful) networking features and user can decide to use some other library
Anyways, good point

[Clement-Fernandes]

Hello!

With friends we made a game in C++ that brings together a graphical library with Raylib and some Networking to play from 1 to 4 players on different computers!

The code of the repo is here: https://github.com/Studio-17/R-Type

There is documentation with Doxygen in each file if you want to understand the code much easily. 😁

[raysan5]

@Clement-Fernandes Wow! Very nice! It looks like a very complete project! Do you have some gameplay video/trailer?

[Clement-Fernandes]

@raysan5 Sorry I haven't made one but I'll probably make a video of it in the coming week!

I have made another game with Raylib using Networking (not as complex as the other one because we didn't stay on it very long) but still pretty fun!

The code of the repo is here: https://github.com/Studio-17/Zappy

I'll probably make a video for that too. 😆