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This category consists of posts which form “1st beta” of the Vol.I-III of the upcoming book “Development & Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games”. Please note that “2nd beta” (available on Indiegogo) has 75% of the new content compared to the “1st beta” (in particular, based on the comments here on ithare.com and on /r/programming), so please don’t hit me too hard for the quality of the “1st beta”. ToC of “2nd beta”.
| Quote: | “For game development (and unlike most of other software development projects), you’re likely to have binary files which need to be edited (representing so-called “assets”)” |
| Another Quote: | “for open-source games, Git does have a Very Significant Advantage™” |
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| Quote: | “As a rule of thumb, for gamedev we DO need to have our version control to be easily usable by non-developers.” |
| Another Quote: | “it is the second developer to commit who becomes |
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| Quote: | “Whenever Game Event is interrupted for significant time, as a rule of thumb it is better to roll back the interrupted Game Event rather than trying to restore the exact Game World State in the middle of the Game Event.” |
| Another Quote: | “Just like Scaling Up, improving performance doesn’t provide infinite scalability. However, it happens that it is all about numbers.” |
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| Quote: | “The basic idea behind Continuous Integration is simple: as soon as you commit something, a build is automatically run with all the tests you were able to invent by that time” |
| Another Quote: | “One thing which should be noted about agile criticisms, is that there is no real disagreement about what needs to be done; the sentiment in such criticisms is usually more along the lines of “we’re doing it anyway, so do we need fancy names and external consultants?”” |
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| Quote: | “Modifying generated code usually qualifies as a Really Bad Idea” |
| Another Quote: | “How much can be gained by each of such specialized encodings – still depends on the game, but if you can try-and-test a dozen of different encodings within a few hours – it will usually allow you to learn quite a few things about your traffic (and to optimize things both visually and traffic-wise too).” |
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| Quote: | “In other words, you can write your code ‘as if’ all-your-code-within-the-same-FSM executed within the same thread” |
| Another Quote: | “As soon as we have these two parts of processing – we can say that our Server-to-Server communication is tolerant to all kinds of transient inter-server disconnects” |
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