Networking Architecture

[masoug]

• TCP vs. UDP?
• What communications model to use? Client-server? Peer-to-peer?
• What is the protocol? How will clients and servers create, join and start a game?
  • How will I deal with corner cases? What happens when a player suddnely leaves a game? etc...
• What is the packet structure? How do I serialize the game's state?
• What happens when the network latency turns out to be prohibitively slow?
• How will I test the game if it requires networked computers?

[masoug]

I've come up with a model for how the networking is going to work. I've already put it in the wiki and will flesh it out later.