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I'll be the first to admit, programming was never something I found easy. My very first experience in programming was when I got this book at the ripe age of 11. I liked playing my Nintendo 64  and wanted to make games on my own. The book that changed it all for me My ability was far under sub-par. Somewhere in these  forums I wrote a post asking for help trying to understand a while loop - needless to say I got defensive because I felt I was being talked down by people smarter than me, telling me that I should start and learn more simpler things first (than dive right into making a PC game). Forums did actually look like this (circa 2005) The truth was, I was being too ambitious. BUT - TwisterMan was not going to code itself! (All drawn in glorious Microsoft Paint :)). Animation frames of TwisterMan doing some whirlwind attack Watch out for spikeo ! *rawr* And whoever this boss was called... Baaaa? The point I'm trying to get across i...

I felt a desire to do something I hadn't tried yet, and that was to make a multiplayer game over the network within a .NET Core console application. Because - why not? Programming allows us to create anything we can think of . Let's have a look at making our game, Packet Battle! Packet Battle! Overview The format of this article is we will approach different aspects we need to solve in order to make Packet Battle, and at the very end I'll share the entire source you can run and play Packet Battle with your friends. Playing video games with friends You likely won't have as much fun as these people, but games are as much as you put into them . Let's begin. Defining "server" and "client" Before we go further, it is essential to understand the difference between a server and a client. In the terms of a game, each player is typically a client that joins a server that hosts multiple clients. Examples of these types of games are...