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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘Client’, page 5:

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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