A decentralized network — in my opinion — is much like a well-functioning community. It’s governed and ran by its participants. There are fundamental rules that no single actor can ignore or avoid. Everyone involved in this community has an innate responsibility to keep its overall outlook healthy and positive…

Because making multiplayer games is hard Last time I wrote about running an On-Demand Game Server Architecture on AWS for multiplayer games. Usually you need to roll your own game server if you want to mitigate cheating as much as possible; your game clients would need to act as dumb…

A cheaper alternative to running your high-scale multiplayer games — Recently I’ve been working on a room-based multiplayer game built for WebGL and I kept bumping into issues with running my server architecture on top of AWS GameLift. I’ve used GameLift before for a different game, but I’ve always found the documentation grueling to sift through and the service just…

Moonshot Just a little over a week ago the theme of the 2020 Game Off has been announced; moonshot. moonshot — noun an extremely ambitious and innovative project the act of launching a spacecraft to the moon a hit or thrown ball that travels a great distance with a high…

Every story, no matter how big or small, needs some level of worldbuilding. Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world, sometimes associated with a whole fictional universe. Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldbuilding When I think about stories, I see three fundamental concepts; plot, characters and context. A good plot keeps…

Tech — Software Architecture— Overview — “DAWN WAS COMING. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.” Excerpt From: Rothfuss, Patrick. “The Wise Man’s Fear.” Much like the silence of the Waystone Inn, the architectural backend of Tales of Ethoas — Eternal Struggle consists three major parts. Eternal Struggle is…

Introduction — The World Was Once Dark… Dark as though a giant’s ink plot had fallen over and spilled onto the map of all there was, drowning the inhabitants in murkiness. Dark as though the sun that burned so hot and so high in the sky was snuffed out like little more…