Things I Learned About When Making My Multiplayer Game

I have RELEASED MY 2D MULTIPLAYER SWORD FIGHTING GAME PROTOTYPE
https://snapgamesstudios.itch.io/duel-of-steel and these are some things I have learned from making it in Godot 4

SO WHAT MULTIPLAYER SOLUTION?

I tried some different multiplayer solutions starting with a plan multiplayer solution and ended up realising that nobody plays with lan then started looking around again and found another solution IP p2p I looked at this and it works pretty well, but one big problem you have to share you IP to connect to other people directly, which is a huge security problem so I drop it and I ended up choosing WebRTC because it's cheaper to use and a bit more secure I will have links to tutorial for all these multiplayer solutions for you to try.

I know there are other ones out there but I didn't want to spend too much on a free multiplayer game

OTHER THING I LEARNED/FOUND

• how hard it is to test the game
• how to sync players
• etc

TUTORIALS THAT I USED.

• LAN: https://youtu.be/zWjFEVAkz3w?si=zqFpluY5Mz52wfTI
• IP P2P: https://youtu.be/n8D3vEx7NAE?si=-RB2gqhnIkPKAynH
• WEB RTC: https://youtu.be/ulfGNtiItnc?si=K3nJqe-QZlleIL1X
• If you going to publish your game to Steam I would use Steam for multiplayer it's cheap and works so much better. here is a project that can help with starting out with Steam https://github.com/SeaKrill/GodotSteam-Lobby/tree/main