Indie multiplayer roadmap.
Co-op, 32-player, 128-player — pick your poison.
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What this roadmap covers
Multiplayer doubles the budget, triples the bugs, and ten-x's the rewards. This roadmap picks stacks that actually work for indies: Mirror or Fish-Net for 8–128 players, Unreal's native replication for shooters, Steam relay for low-effort matchmaking. Honest about the gotchas: cheat vectors, hosting costs, server-authority tradeoffs.
- Transport pick: Mirror vs Fish-Net vs Netcode vs Unreal replication
- Client vs server authority — what must the server own
- Dedicated server Dockerfile + <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=a18d59f06034&utm_campaign=Referral_Invite&utm_medium=Referral_Program&utm_source=badge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DigitalOcean</a> / Edgegap / GameFabric
- Cheat audit: client-side red flags and how to close them
- Matchmaking: Steam relay, lobby lists, friend invites
How personalisation works
The public roadmap above is the outline. When you sign up and answer 9 short questions — skill level, game type(s), multiplayer needs, budget, timeline — the guide filters 30+ content segments and rebuilds itself for your exact project. No "skip this section if you're not doing multiplayer" — those sections just don't exist for you.
Every segment has a concrete checklist, copy-paste Claude Code CLI prompts, and progress that syncs across devices. Beginners get progressive unlocking so you can't overwhelm yourself. Shipped devs get everything unlocked.
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The roadmap above is the tip. The full version is personalised, tracked, and unlockable in 13 chapters.