Beta chapters of my upcoming book Development & Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games seem to gain in popularity. I’ve even got more than one request to make a PDF out of them, so they can be read offline in a e-book reader such as Kindle. Ok, here they go: PDFs of beta chapters from the […]

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The biggest problem with building your game around 3rd-party game engine is that in this case, the game engine becomes your Absolute Dependency

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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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Any successful MMOG faces cheaters, and currently authoritative servers is the only way which enables fighting them.

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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. — Albert Einstein

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It is still too early to start architecting your game.

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Even more importantly, you need to be reasonably sure that you have listed all the interactions which you can think of at the moment.