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Hey HN, this is Harsh from Hathora. We started as a game server hosting company and are launching a new offering today centered around voice models, leveraging our existing platfor…

Horizontal scaling is certainly a challenge. With traditional load balancers, you don't control which instance your clients get routed to, so you end up needing to use message brok…

Hi HN, I'm the CTO at Hathora and wrote this piece. Happy to answer any questions

I cofounded Hathora ( https://hathora.dev/ ) last year and we've been working on making it easier for smaller teams and individual developers to build scalable multiplayer games. W…

Hi I'm the author of this blog post and the CTO of Hathora. Happy to answer any questions about how we built our Stateful Router for WebSockets and other persistent connections!

WebSockets is built on top of TCP, whereas WebTransport is built on top of UDP. This makes WebTransport better suited for handling latency-sensitive applications like multiplayer g…

Does anyone know of any websites/applications that utilize WebTransport? The only thing I've come across are the Showcase demos from https://github.com/yomorun/presencejs

This tutorial features a fully authoritative server using arcade-physics[0] for physics and collision detection. It uses Phaser for the frontend and Hathora for the backend/multipl…

Hi HN, I wrote this article because I didn't find much on the internet comparing network performance between cloud providers. I was surprised to see the amount of separation betwee…

If you're interested in using web technologies for your game, you may find the framework I've been working on to be interesting: https://docs.hathora.dev/#/ I've had success using …

Hi there! I started a company this year focused on multiplayer server infrastructure. We also built a multiplayer game framework for Typescript that has gotten 400+ stars on Github…

Try https://hpx7.itch.io/ship-connect if you want to see a mobile friendly Hathora game (made for a different gamejam) Edit: I realize now you're talking about desktop Safari. Star…

I'm not the author of the game so not sure exactly what they meant by that, but that game uses Websockets which are built on top of TCP, so developers shouldn't have to deal with d…

For an example Hathora game that does client prediction and rollback, take a look at https://github.com/ourcade/flappy-bird-hathora

If anyone wants to try out a game I made using Hathora for a recent gamejam, you can check out star-jump: https://hpx7.itch.io/star-jump It's a 2d multiplayer platformer using Phas…

Hathora actually supports raw TCP connections in addition to Websockets, and we're very close to shipping raw UDP support as well! For the web, we're deciding between using WebRTC …

Hathora's auth story is basically bring your own JWT token. So you can implement your own custom auth as long as you end up with a JWT signed using your APP_SECRET in the end. Webs…

Hathora Cloud provides several important features specific to multiplayer gaming. To list a few: 1) Built in authentication/identity 2) Session/room based connections (with lobbies…