Online Multiplayer Game Tutorial #5 - Player Movement

Player movement in a multiplayer game is a bit more complicated than that of a single player one. Rather than just alter positions client-side, we must alter ALL of our players' positions server-side. This prevents against cheats and makes sure no one can get an unfair advantage such as editing their player speed client-side.

Editing player positions server-side requires quite a bit of know-how when taking server latency into consideration. Here i'll teach you how to get a smooth running real-time game using:

00:00 Authoritative server movement 19:42 Client side prediction 33:40 Server reconciliation 52:23 Player interpolation

This lesson's source code: https://github.com/chriscourses/multiplayer-game/commit/9e0bab503a4fb281d40d5da90c418ff181f3c763 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViJGNlMvWG8