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Show HN: Make a lowlatency, realtime multiplayer game with edge computing

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Re: Show HN: Make a lowlatency, realtime multiplayer game with edge computing

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Re: Show HN: Make a lowlatency, realtime multiplayer game with edge computing

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It would be nice if there was more discussion of the architecture and how the service achieves its claims. How are users synced reliably without a central server? It’s not a matter of reducing latency at all costs. Game server architecture is based on the concept of server authority that prevents hackers and cheaters from performing client-side operations from altering the “source of truth” that lives on and is only altered by server-side operations. This looks like a fun approach to learning the API but there isn’t enough information to justify replacing existing hand-made systems built for online games.

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Post by ctesh »

gatherhunterer wrote: post #4

It would be nice if there was more discussion of the architecture and how the service achieves its claims. How are users synced reliably without a central server? It’s not a matter of reducing latency at all costs. Game server architecture is based on the concept of server authority that prevents hackers and cheaters from performing client-side operations from altering the “source of truth” that lives on and is only…

Hi gatherhunterer Great feedback - I'll add a few links on to the docs on architecture and things like consistency of data (short answer is this a geo distributed data platform with consistency gaurantees).

Thanks also for the great point you made about "altering source of truth" - we will look into how best to provide those gaurantees as well. Our underlying data structures are an event source on an append only log - so we can go back to see the provenance of changes to make sure there was no cheating but we dont expose that externally.

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