Title Unity Networking

This thesis is about developing a game called Servants of Aether into a networked multiplayer game. The game has been in development for eight months before this thesis, and it might take one more year to release. Originally, the game was not designed as networked multiplayer game which makes designing more challenging. Game is being developed with Unity game engine, which has been especially popular among indie developers. Network implementation was made using Unity's built-in network solution. The most important part in developing networked multiplayer game is synchronization. Everything that happens in the game world needs to look the same for every player. Characters has to move very smoothly and all characters' features, such as attacking needs to be transmitted reliably, and it may not miss the target due latency. In addition to synchronization this thesis focuses on server logic, minimizing the network bandwidth requirement and implementing chatting possibility. All the requirements of the were implemented, the multiplayer works well and all major error were fixed. Most difficult part of the thesis was by far the interpolation and extrapolation logic, which are also the most important aspects of achieving smooth movement. Both were successfully implemented, although there are certainly room for improvement. Also, the software structure was challenging design, as synchronization everything requires understanding the structure of the game as a whole. Overall the thesis was extremely interesting and challenging. As a first touch of game networking, the outcome was suprisingly good