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“No Bugs” Hare Opera Omnia, Vol.23:

Server-Side MMO Architecture. Naïve, Web-Based, and Classical Deployment Architectures

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Quote: “If you disrupt the game-event-currently-in-progress for more than 0.5-2 minutes, for almost-any synchronous multi-player game you won’t be able to get the same players back, and will need to rollback the game event anyway.”
Another Quote: “However, keep in mind, that all fall-tolerant solutions are complicated, costly, and for the games realm I generally consider them as an over-engineering (even by my standards).”
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Client-Side. Client Architecture Diagram, Threads, and Game Loop

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Quote: “To have a good concurrency model, it is not strictly necessary to program in Erlang”
Another Quote: “Most of developers agree that FSM-based programming is beneficial in the medium- to long-run.”
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Client-Side. On Debugging Distributed Systems, Deterministic Logic, and Finite State Machines

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Quote: “After your logic has failed in production, you can “replay” this inputs-log on your functionally identical in-house system, and the bug will be reproduced at the very same point where it has originally happened.”
Another Quote: “You can implement your Finite State Machine as a deterministic variation of a usual event-driven program”
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Client-Side. Programming Languages for Games, including Resilience to Reverse Engineering and Portability

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Quote: “from all the popular compiled languages, C++ tends to produce the binary code which is the most difficult-to-reverse-engineer (that is, provided that you have turned all the optimizations on, disabled debug info, and are not using DLLs)”
Another Quote: “Bot fighting is always a two-way battle with bot writers inventing a way around the MMO defences, and then MMO developers striking back with a new defence against the most recent attack; rinse and repeat.”
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Client-Side. Graphics from “D&D of MMOG” upcoming book

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Quote: “Making 3D work is not easy to start with, but making it look good is a major challenge.”
Another Quote: “In such cases of dual visual interfaces, it is paramount to have Logic-to-Graphics layer as described above”
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Due to Popular Demand: PDFs of Beta Chapters from “Development & Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games”

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Beta chapters of my upcoming book Development & Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games seem to gain in popularity. I’ve even got more than one request to make a PDF out of them, so they can be read offline in a e-book reader such as Kindle. Ok, here they go: PDFs of beta chapters from the […]

DIY vs Re-Use: In Search of Balance from upcoming book “Design&Development of MMOG”

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Quote: “The biggest problem with building your game around 3rd-party game engine is that in this case, the game engine becomes your Absolute Dependency”
Another Quote: “In future chapters we will keep in mind three specific game/network engines, and will discuss their pros and cons with relation to the issues we are raising. These engines are Unity 5, Unreal Engine 4, and Photon Server”
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