Improbable announces SpatialOS Game Developer alpha

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Post by ggambetta » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 4:07 PM UTC

Improbable announces SpatialOS Game Developer alpha
improbable.io

Re: Improbable announces SpatialOS Game Developer alpha

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Post by ggambetta » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 4:26 PM UTC

All the juicy details in TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/improbable-teams-with-goog...), VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/13/google-and-improbable-part...), Wired (https://www.wired.com/2016/12/googles-improbable-deal-recrea...), and Google themselves (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/12/google-partners...).

Also worth looking at this latest video of Worlds Adrift, one of the games built on SpatialOS, that is now in Alpha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjLWK6iQvRs Beautiful storytelling on this one :)

The website (https://spatialos.improbable.io) has more details about the tech itself, and for an even more in-depth look, the documentation (https://spatialos.improbable.io/docs/reference) has everything from a conceptual overview to tutorials to API references.

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Post by forrestthewoods » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 5:25 PM UTC

The snakiest of snake oils.

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Post by andrewguenther » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 5:29 PM UTC

forrestthewoods wrote: post #3

The snakiest of snake oils.

As someone who knows nothing about Improbable and SpatialOS, would you mind elaborating?

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Post by JadeNB » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 5:32 PM UTC

I had a terrible time parsing the title (currently "Improbable Partners with Google, and Announces SpatialOS Game Developer Alpha") until I realised that 'Improbable' was the name of the company, and 'Partners' a verb.

Re: Improbable announces SpatialOS Game Developer alpha

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Post by ggambetta » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 5:38 PM UTC

JadeNB wrote: post #5

I had a terrible time parsing the title (currently "Improbable Partners with Google, and Announces SpatialOS Game Developer Alpha") until I realised that 'Improbable' was the name of the company, and 'Partners' a verb.

Good point. Fixed!

Re: Improbable announces SpatialOS Game Developer alpha

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Post by nodivbyzero » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 5:49 PM UTC

It looks like they use GoLang on the server.

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Post by smlacy » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 5:59 PM UTC

How is this different from what SecondLife/LindenLabs was doing a decade ago?

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Post by mwitkow » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 6:13 PM UTC

nodivbyzero wrote: post #7

It looks like they use GoLang on the server.

Our Platform team uses Golang extensively. We use it together with gRPC to form our microservice stack that orchestrates the SpatialOS simulations. The TL of our Platform API team did a cool talk at the Go London User Group meetup in October: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/9259-a-debuggable-base-...

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Post by dang » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 6:15 PM UTC

forrestthewoods wrote: post #3

The snakiest of snake oils.

Please don't post unsubstantive dismissals to HN. It's an anti-pattern here.

Substantiated criticisms are fine.