This leads to offering courses on game development that are too narrowly focused to lead to any functional games or to courses that are purely theoretical, This thesis attempts to outline the development of a generic game engine and show how it can be implemented with minimal skills, beyond those in programming. This daunting array of required disciplines makes it difficult to offer effective instruction in game development, The tendency is to divide the disciplines according to traditional academic categories. Even in the programming domain there are a number of sub-disciplines that a game can require such as physics programming, environmental programming, artificial intelligence and programming the core game engine, A game can even be developed in a number of different ways depending on the design of the final product. It is difficult to isolate the different disciplines in game development since every aspect of the game is co-dependent on everything else. These range from art, audio and design through programming and development. A variety of different skill sets need to come together to create a professional game. But this would only be the case if I choose to go with scenario 2 right? Meanwhile if I go with scenario 1, I could just add networking whenever because the game engine isn't dependant on it.Game development is an ever growing interdisciplinary field. In past experiences adding networking to a single-player game is quite hard, and I assume this principle will apply to a game engine as well (ie. I assume every game is multiplayer (multiplayer with 1 player if single player) and kind of build networking into the engine natively. Basically just building the networking on top of the game engine, which means the other functionalities (like rendering, physics, etc.) don't need to know about networking right? I give a low-level/high-level API to the user to do networking on their own (like UNet I guess?). I have past experience making networking games in Unity and whatnot, however I am sort of conflicted as to how to structure the networking part.

I am currently building a 2d game engine, with the future intention of adding some sort of networking functionality.

Game engine architecture