naia-lib/naia

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

naia is a cross-platform Rust networking library for multiplayer games, providing server-authoritative entity replication and typed message passing over UDP (native) and WebRTC (browser/Wasm). It is ECS-agnostic with adapters for Bevy and macroquad, following the Tribes 2 networking model.

Use cases

• build a multiplayer game server in Rust
• replicate game entities from server to clients
• make a browser-based multiplayer game with WebAssembly
• send reliable and unreliable messages between game client and server
• delegate entity authority to clients in a multiplayer game
• add networking to a Bevy game
• sync game state across native and web clients

When to choose

• you are building a multiplayer game in Rust, especially with Bevy or macroquad
• you need the same networking code to run natively and in the browser via Wasm
• you want server-authoritative entity replication with automatic diffing
• you need configurable reliability and ordering channels for game messages

When to avoid

• you need general-purpose HTTP or REST networking rather than game state replication
• your project is not in Rust
• you need peer-to-peer networking rather than a client-server model
• you want a turnkey game server hosting solution rather than a library

Facets

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networking serialization concurrency game-engine websocket gaming-tools cross-platform rust wasm cross-platform browser windows multiplayer-games entity-replication server-authoritative webrtc udp ecs-agnostic bevy macroquad client-server game-development linux macos

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