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Hey, I wrote that thing! Always a pleasant surprise and a weird feeling to open Hacker News (for the 14308560234th time today) and read my name like that :)

adamrezich 5y ago
since you're here, it looks like the second paragraph under the second heading in the second article is an unfinished thought :) great work otherwise though!
- ggambetta 5y ago
  Hmmm, you're right, great catch! Not sure what's going on there, I'll investigate.
dested 5y ago
I can't tell you how many times I find myself back on this page while working on multiplayer games. From the bottom of my heart I really can't thank you enough for this tutorial.
- ggambetta 5y ago
  You're very welcome :)
Rd6n6 5y ago
This was one of my main resources for learning game networking. If you ever feel tempted to write more articles on the subject, or write a book, people will eagerly read it. Thanks for writing and hosting your articles Edit: I see you wrote a cg book! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013002
- mrspeaker 5y ago
  Holy cow - I didn't know about this book. Everything Gabriel puts out is awesome: this is an instant-buy for me!
  - ggambetta 5y ago
    Thank you for the kind words :) I hope you enjoy the book too!
- ggambetta 5y ago
  Thanks! I've thought about what else to do with this (more articles? YouTube videos? A reference implementation in C?) but I'm not sure there would be enough interest, or that I could go into enough depth. For example, I can't imagine writing a whole book about this. Besides, there's people who are far more qualified than I am to go into more depth - namely, the people who have been doing this for AAA games.
devortel 5y ago
I've watched every single freely available GDC talk on game netcode and read countless netcode guides and I keep coming back to yours. You've done a wonderful job at explaining the core concepts in detail without bogging the reader down with nitty gritty implementation details and code!
johnisgood 5y ago
This is pretty darn useful to me as I am currently working on a game.

adamrezich 5y ago

since you're here, it looks like the second paragraph under the second heading in the second article is an unfinished thought :) great work otherwise though!

ggambetta 5y ago
Hmmm, you're right, great catch! Not sure what's going on there, I'll investigate.

dested 5y ago

I can't tell you how many times I find myself back on this page while working on multiplayer games. From the bottom of my heart I really can't thank you enough for this tutorial.

ggambetta 5y ago
You're very welcome :)

Rd6n6 5y ago

This was one of my main resources for learning game networking. If you ever feel tempted to write more articles on the subject, or write a book, people will eagerly read it. Thanks for writing and hosting your articles Edit: I see you wrote a cg book! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013002

mrspeaker 5y ago
Holy cow - I didn't know about this book. Everything Gabriel puts out is awesome: this is an instant-buy for me!
- ggambetta 5y ago
  Thank you for the kind words :) I hope you enjoy the book too!
ggambetta 5y ago
Thanks! I've thought about what else to do with this (more articles? YouTube videos? A reference implementation in C?) but I'm not sure there would be enough interest, or that I could go into enough depth. For example, I can't imagine writing a whole book about this. Besides, there's people who are far more qualified than I am to go into more depth - namely, the people who have been doing this for AAA games.

devortel 5y ago

I've watched every single freely available GDC talk on game netcode and read countless netcode guides and I keep coming back to yours. You've done a wonderful job at explaining the core concepts in detail without bogging the reader down with nitty gritty implementation details and code!

johnisgood 5y ago

This is pretty darn useful to me as I am currently working on a game.