Hello again!
I was playing State of Decay 2 with my buddies and thought it would be really cool to learn how to make my own RPG where you can either be playing the game as a single player game or turn on multiplayer option while in-game and allow friends to join you.
While I have looked at various methods for multiplayer, networking is a concept that confuses me even with the different terminology. For example, I get confused on the difference between networking concepts(and by concepts I mean the coding aspect) you need to make a online FPS game where you have everyone get into a lobby and then load into a game versus being able to play a game and then host your friends connecting you you.
I am having trouble understanding the difference, as far as the coding involved, between having a server hosted game(Think Ark) and a local hosted(State of Decay 2). While I understand one is a persistent world hosted on a server and everyone logs into that server versus one is a game world only available as long as the host is online, I am not sure how you go about setting up each type and would love to learn the different type of setups you can use.
I do apologize if that sounds confusing. I confused myself trying to explain what I don’t understand. In the end I just accepted networking is hard but I still want to learn haha