Introduction

For a quick tutorial about how to use the crate, click here.

What is lightyear?

Lightyear is a networking library for games written in Bevy. It uses a client-server networking architecture, where the server is authoritative over the game state.

It is heavily inspired by naia.

What is this book about?

This book serves several purposes:

• It contains some explanations of game networking concepts, as well as how they are implemented in this crate
• provide some examples of how to use the crate
• explain some of the design decisions that were made

This book does not aim to be a polished document, or a comprehensive reference for lightyear. It is more of a collection of notes and thoughts that I had while developing the crate; a networking-related wiki that I could reference later.