I know that there is some sort of sever to client relationship but how does it work simply?
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It kind of depends on the game.
The game usually has two sides: the server side and the client side. The server handles all of the physics and actually running the game, while the client displays everything on your screen and handles inputs, textures, etc.
As for the connection, you can think of the server as a central hub with every player’s client connecting to it. If the connection between the server and the client has latency or is interrupted, the game will have server lag.
Some games (The nintendo switch uses this a lot) have what is known as a “Peer to peer” connection, where all of the server-side logic happens on the device of the person hosting the game.
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