Sockets/Multiplayer

[omegaordoss]

I want to design a multiplayer game, while I've spent the last month learning the C++ syntax and how to use it I am completely clueless on how sockets work and how many things are done with multiplayer. Does anyone know a book or source I could obtain/use to learn about this?

[ascii]

Network (or socket) programming and game programming are two very different fields. To start learning about the former I'd recommend reading up on things like TCP/IP, server management and server-side scripting as well as data packaging and compression.

I'd start off reading these two articles:
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
http://www.lowtek.com/sockets/

Also, if you don't know C yet, you're probably going to want to learn it!

Hope this helps :)

[Computergeek01]

I'd say write the game first, so you'll know what data has to be sent "over the wire" to the other PC. Then worry about making it multi-player.