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Title: No actual information about network game problems
Review: My personal opinion about this book is don't buy it unless you want to read through a badly written language with a lot of smart remarks and very little substance about network game programming. It covers the basic about network gaming with socket and then shows how to set up directplay. It uses a lot of time and pages to show how to draw a couple of lines with direct3d and basic windows programming stuff, which I personally would have bought a book on if that was what I wanted to know something about. There's no discussion about cons and pros for using tcp or udp protocol and it totally lack information about latency problems and how to handle those, because this is a subject that absolutely needs to be handled when we start talking about multiplaying, unless it's a turn based game.Thumbs down from me...there got to be better books out there about multiplayer game programming.
