Balík: libgrapple-1.0-1 (0.9.1-0ubuntu3)

a network layer designed for games

Grapple is designed to be a simple network layer, allowing the addition of multiplayer features to a game for as little as a dozen lines of code.

However it is also fully featured, so if you want more from your networking, you can have it.

Basic Features

 * Simple client-server networking
 * Keeps all clients aware of all other clients
 * Passworded servers
 * Data transfer via TCP, UDP, or reliable UDP

Advanced Features

 * Network messenging by either a push or a pull model, or a mixture of both
 * Multiple methods of querying users
 * User Groups for client bandwidth saving
 * Network load reacting data transmission and retransmission
 * Background pinging to monitor network states
 * Server failover
 * A fully functional lobby system

Homepage: http://grapple.linuxgamepublishing.com/