Mortal Retribution

The goal of the project, as per the course CSCI599: Game Networking Architectures, was to design and build a Multiplayer Game Networking Architecture for a game of our choosing. In order to achieve this, our approach was to first employ an existing networking solution to a game built in Unity. The motivation behind this approach was to understand the intricacies  involved in the process of designing and implementing a network solution. Once this was achieved, we moved to building our own custom networking architecture from scratch. Our idea was to evaluate our architecture with respect to the one built using Mirror and gauge how well our network performs. We aimed to test our network architectures by deploying them on multiple servers across the world using AWS Elastic Computing Cloud services. 

Instead of using an existing video game, we chose to use the First Person Shooter (FPS) Template provided by Unity to build an FPS game (named Mortal Retribution). The assets provided by this template made the game designing and development process quite smooth and easy. For the first step of our approach, we used the Mirror Networking Solution provided by Unity. The vast documentation and examples available on Mirror helped us deeply understand how each network component works and synchronizes. Using the knowledge we gained, we used C# Socket Networking as the basis for our own custom networking architecture. We included various functionalities and features that were all developed from scratch. We successfully implemented a client-server networking architecture for the FPS game that we built. We evaluated the network using the same guidelines as we did the first, and have included our specific findings in the sections below. More information about the gameplay as well can be found below.