trofkm / yojimbo

A network library for client/server games written in C++

yojimbo

yojimbo is a network library for client/server games written in C++.

It's designed around the networking requirements of competitive multiplayer games like first person shooters.

It has the following features:

• Cryptographically secure authentication via connect tokens
• Client/server connection management and timeouts
• Encrypted and signed packets sent over UDP
• Packet fragmentation and reassembly
• Bitpacker and serialization system
• Reliable-ordered messages and data blocks
• Estimates of packet loss, latency and bandwidth usage

yojimbo is stable and production ready.

Source Code

You can get the latest source code by cloning it from github:

  git clone https://github.com/mas-bandwidth/yojimbo.git

Alternatively, you can download the latest release.

Author

The author of this library is Glenn Fiedler.

Other open source libraries by the same author include: netcode, reliable, and serialize

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License

BSD 3-Clause license.