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Pre-Coding Checklist: Things Everybody Hates, but Everybody Needs Them Too. From Source Control to Coding Guidelines
February 29, 2016 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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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
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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?
Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.DevelopmentDevelopment Processes
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Read moreUnity 5 vs UE4 vs Photon vs DIY for MMO
February 22, 2016 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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You can still use HLAPI despite its shortcomings
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If you're using one of the engines above (and not your own one), and your game requires Client-Driven Development Flow, you may want to start with a single-player Unity 5, or with a single-player UE4.
Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.System ArchitectureDistributed systems(Re)ActorsOn.ProgrammingNetwork Programming
Read moreIDL: Encodings, Mappings, and Backward Compatibility
February 15, 2016 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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Modifying generated code usually qualifies as a Really Bad Idea
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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).
Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.System ArchitectureDistributed systemsOn.ProgrammingNetwork Programming
Read moreMMOG. Point-to-Point Communications and non-blocking RPCs
February 8, 2016 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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In other words, you can write your code 'as if' all-your-code-within-the-same-FSM executed within the same thread
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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
Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.System ArchitectureDistributed systemsOn.ProgrammingNetwork Programming
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