analytics for those Senior Software Developers, Team Leads, Architects, and Project Managers who're Able to Think
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: | “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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Abstract: | “Any successful MMOG faces cheaters, and currently authoritative servers is the only way which enables fighting them.” |
| Quote: | “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. — Albert Einstein” |
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| Abstract: | “It is still too early to start architecting your game.” |
| Quote: | “Even more importantly, you need to be reasonably sure that you have listed all the interactions which you can think of at the moment.” |
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