It sounds like you have a lot of work to do concerning how to actually create a game, let alone a multiplayer one. I have had many false-starts since my teenage years insofar as creating a game engine is concerned, and it took me a solid 10 years (with a lot of Real-Life getting in the way over that time) before I finally started figuring it all out. You could say I was super naive from the get-go, I knew how to render some stuff and have an array of entities with positions and velocities, but I had no idea how to actually build something that was manageable without coding myself into a corner that rendered the entire project hopeless and requiring a complete re-write (or some serious surgery that I had no patience for once I realized the horror of my code-design mistakes).

I have started many game engine projects over the years, each time thinking I had it all figured out, until I coded them to the point where it was obvious I still had some learning to do. I am finally *just now* releasing something, after spending 20+ years learning the ins-and-outs of game development, which I've been working on for over 2.5 years (again with Real-Life interfering along the way) and it's something I'm super proud of and excited about, and I couldn't have done it without learning everything that it took me to learn over all this time.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't give up, you probably won't get it your first try, but trying is how I learned, so go for it, but it can't hurt to have a realistic perspective of what you're going to be capable of starting with barely enough knowledge to make a single player game. If you won't have to deal with all the problems I did in my life you'll get there a lot quicker than I did.

If you're curious to see what I've managed to do check out my blog: http://deftware.blogspot.com

My game is called Bitphoria, and it's the product of wanting to make a multiplayer FPS game since the 90s when multiplayer shooter games were just in their infancy.

and it took me a solid 10 years (with a lot of Real-Life getting in the way over that time) before I finally started figuring it all out

When I saw the name "Real-Life", it really reminded of "Half-Life" and I thought that this is a game that was made long time ago and it got so popular that they based Half-Life on it and I was really mad at myself that I haven't even heard that name. Then I searched on Google, didn't found anything, then figured out that you are actually talking about the real life. I mean outside of games.

after spending 20+ years learning the ins-and-outs of game development

Man, it took you 20 years to make a multiplayer game. :o

I started 10 months ago, and I really hope Real-Life doesn't interfere too much( for now I don't even have it :lol: ) because I don't want to spend all my life making some shitty fps. :lol:

It sounds like you have a lot of work to do concerning how to actually create a game, let alone a multiplayer one

True. I decided to postpone the multiplayer by three or four weeks, so I can structure the game loop and add inter/extra-polation in my render() function + some really basic graphics and even more basic cloth physics.(sounds like 2 months). :lol:

Thanks for the advice, by the way. It's really cool when I hear someone else did complete re-writes due to awful code. But result == time * productivity, so I guess there's no other way around this. You have to sacrifice quite a lot of time. Even if someone is very productive, he still needs a whole lot of time.

You will make it if you keep at it, I believe that whole-heartedly. That's really what separates the successful from the unsuccessful: the will to keep at it until success is achieved. Where there's a will there's a way!

...and yes, it took me a long time, because I had to deal with a lot of problems/mistakes I made in life when I was younger, and allowed myself to get distracted and lose focus. But, making a game was something I consistently came back to. So, ultimately, I just had to fully commit and tell myself "I am making a game" and that there were no two ways about it.

Even after that I still got distracted with another project (making specular holograms and building a CNC machine to do it) and that took me 6 months to get out of my system before realizing how much I had already accomplished with my game working on it for over a year solidly, and that I shouldn't let all that hard work go to waste, so I dove right back in and picked up right where I left off.