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    <p>Network Game Programming is a monster of a topic, so it is hard to say "yes, this is how you design a network architecture". It is completely dependent on your game requirements. What sort of volume of packets do you plan on sending? Will there be a packet sent every frame that indicates Player A is holding the left key? Is this traffic confined to a LAN?</p> <p>For something as simple as synchronizing movement between amongst 4 clients, putting send, receive, and rendering in separate threads seems like overkill. Perhaps as a starting point, you should begin with a more simple design and make the move to multithreading when you feel that your packets are not going out fast enough. </p> <p>For example, you may wish to have a game loop like the following (all within the same thread):</p> <pre><code>while (running): readUpdSocketForIncomingPackets(); updateGameObjects(); renderGameObjects(); sendPacketsToPeers(); </code></pre> <p>At the start of each frame, you can read your udp socket for incoming packets and update positions (and whatever else you are sending to your peers), then draw. As game input is processed, packets are created and accumulated in a packet queue. Doing it this way, allows you to perform optimizations, such as cramming/merging multiple messages into one packet, removing duplicate messages (e.g. only send the latest position update), etc. So at the end of each game loop, the final queue of packets are processed and send to the peers.</p> <p>But again, this is a big topic and I've glossing over a lot of details.</p> <p>Take a look at gaffer's blog: <a href="http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/what-every-programmer-needs-to-know-about-game-networking/" rel="noreferrer">http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/what-every-programmer-needs-to-know-about-game-networking/</a></p> <p>He's got some great articles that address some fundamentals of network game programming.</p>
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