I built this because I wanted a SDK to plug into my C++ projects, in the past I have created a wrapper around GGRS for C++ but after having to deal with Rust FFI I decided to build a native alternative instead to more easily fit my projects. GekkoNet is heavily inspired by the GGPO Rust reimplementation GGRS.
I am personally not a big fan of the callback based approach of GGPO hence why I am more of fond of how GGRS handles its control flow. And I might be addicted to reinventing the wheel 😅
- Local/Couch Sessions
- Per Player Input Delay Settings
- Online Sessions
- Local Player Input Delay Settings
- Remote Player Input Prediction Settings
- Spectator Sessions
- Spectator Delay Settings.
- The added ability to spectate spectators. This might be handy if you have a seperate spectating service which propegates the inputs to more spectators.
- Limited Saving
- Save the gamestate less often which might help games where saving the game is expensive. This is at the cost of more iterations advancing the gamestate during rollback.
- Abstracted socket manager. Plug GekkoNet into existing networking solutions such as Steamworks or default sockets by inheriting and overriding the socket manager.
- Event System for notifications for eg. specific players being done with syncing.
- Desync Detection (Only when limited saving is disabled for now)
- Network Statistics
- Joining a session that's already in progress as a spectator (and maybe as a player later)
- Replays
- Add xmake for building.
- Commission an artist to create a logo for GekkoNet
Todo
Todo
Todo
GekkoNet is licensed under the BSD-2-Clause license Read about it here.