Unity Multiplayer Games -- Table of Contents -- Unity Multiplayer Games -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- Unity IDE crash course -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Unity Networking - The Pong Game -- Introducing multiplayer games -- Introducing UDP communication -- Setting up the Master Server -- NetworkViews and state serialization -- Writing a custom state serializer -- Using RPCs -- Initializing a server -- Connecting to a server -- Connecting to the Master Server -- Registering a server with the Master Server -- Browsing available servers -- Setting up a dedicated server model -- Servers in Unity -- Compiler directives -- Setting up a server console without Pro -- Loading networked levels -- Creating a multiplayer Pong game -- Preparing the Field -- The Ball script -- The Paddle script -- Keeping score -- Displaying the score to the player -- Networking the game -- Spawning paddles -- The networked ball -- Networked scorekeeping -- The Connect screen -- Summary -- 2. Photon Unity Networking - The Chat Client -- Differences between PUN and Unity Networking -- Setting up PUN with Photon Cloud -- Using PhotonViews -- Connecting to Photon and getting a list of rooms -- Creating and joining rooms -- Creating rooms -- Joining rooms -- Filtering results by user preference -- Filtering arrays -- Filtering and caching a room list -- Automatic matchmaking -- Finding friends -- Syncing a level between players -- Creating a chat client -- The Connect screen -- The Lobby screen -- The chat room -- Adding friends lists.

Summary -- 3. Photon Server - Star Collector -- Dedicated servers -- Getting the Photon Server -- Creating a server application -- Creating a class library -- Responding to operation requests -- Deploying the server code -- Connecting from Unity and passing messages -- Creating a game logic class -- Assigning player IDs -- Building a star collector game -- Preparing the class library -- The Actor class -- Sending an ID to a player -- Keeping track of the game state -- Spawning and picking up stars -- Broadcasting events -- Connecting from Unity -- Creating/destroying actors -- Controlling the player -- Summary -- 4. Player.IO - Bot Wars -- Player.IO versus the Photon Server -- Getting and setting up a development server -- Setting up the Unity client SDK -- Connecting to Player.IO -- Getting a list of rooms -- Connecting to rooms -- Creating rooms -- Random matchmaking -- Sending/receiving messages -- Server-side code -- Working with BigDB -- Creating a simple RTS prototype -- The server-side code -- The client-side code -- Summary -- 5. PubNub - The Global Chatbox -- Overview of PubNub -- Getting started -- How PubNub works -- Parsing JSON from PubNub -- Building a PubNub interface -- Creating a global chatbox application -- Publishing chat messages -- Displaying chat logs -- Summary -- 6. Entity Interpolation and Prediction -- Entity interpolation -- The client-side prediction -- Rigidbody simulation -- Creating a networked object -- Adding naive interpolation -- Improving interpolation -- Preparing for server authoritative movement -- Implementing server authoritative movement -- Notes on hacking -- Summary -- 7. Server-side Hit Detection -- Client-side versus server-side hit detection -- Creating a testbed -- Moving hit detection to the server -- Entity rewinding -- Summary -- Index.