Creating a main menu state before gameplay

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Hello fellow community members,

I have been working on a small networking game which is coming along slowly, but while the main gameplay is slowly coming along,I would like to have more of a proper game feel to it before I can even hand it out to my friends for testing. What I am attempting to do right now is to have a title menu where users can start a game, host, or join an existing game. Seeing as I would like to go a step at a time what I would like to know is if there is a tutorial out there that walks me through various game states or of a way to create a title menu prior to starting the game?

As a bonus for anyone interested, is there a tutorial where I can specify an IP to join an already existing game instead of launching the game with the IP in the arguments?

Any and all help is extremely appreciated.

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There’s more than a tutorial, there’s an entirely functional C++ Example :slight_smile:

Download shootergame and you can see how they setup the menu / pre-game state vs the in-game state :slight_smile:

:slight_smile:

Rama

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Thanks for the response. Would this also cover the second part to my question of being able to join an existing networked game?

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Yup, shootergame does it all!

:slight_smile:

Rama