Unity 5: Network Gaming

Discover how to use Unity 5 to add multiplayer network components to your games.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
• What we'll build: Network tank battle

1. Network Gaming Overview

• Review of basic networking
• The ping command
• How network gaming works
• Unity: The High Level API (HLAPI)

2. Our Multiplayer Game

• Project overview
• Set up the Network Manager
• Network identity
• Testing the game
• Network transform
• The local player
• Instantiate projectiles
• Firing projectiles
• Multplayer projectiles
• Adding a health indicator, part 1
• Adding a health indicator, part 2
• Adding a health indicator, part 3
• Multiplayer health
• Fragging the enemy
• Respawning

Conclusion

• Next steps