How does video game networking work?

[RyanPridgeon]

Just a little kind of offtopic note, ive managed to use placement new on my own structs and send them over the network, i dont know if this is a new usage, but it works and is simple, idk if its fast or secure, it stores the new struct in a char array buffer and then it sends it and then it recievs and then you can get it out of the buffer again

Very good way to do it. That way you can define yourself a good, strict interface struct for sending data between the client and server

[Zer0XoL]

Just a little kind of offtopic note, ive managed to use placement new on my own structs and send them over the network, i dont know if this is a new usage, but it works and is simple, idk if its fast or secure, it stores the new struct in a char array buffer and then it sends it and then it recievs and then you can get it out of the buffer again

Very good way to do it. That way you can define yourself a good, strict interface struct for sending data between the client and server

thank you btw, i dont really know how to do networking stuff ive tried reading but its hard to follow, i just want to know how to make a server and a client.
i think i used your chat example to make a multiplayer game, it kind of worked but was buggy, so i was wondering if you could make a tutorial or something on winsock/sock programming?(you dont need to) or at least give me some links you learned from or something :P