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Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by yazaddaruvala »

ItsFirefly wrote: post #85
martinesko36 wrote: post #80

What are your server costs?

It of course depends on the demand, but very low in general. During periods where I don't have a lot of player activity even a single vCPU is enough to host about 2.000 simultaneous players.

> It of course depends on the demand

Do you require downtime to scale or is it seamless?

Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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Post by dreamingincode »

ItsFirefly wrote: post #94
suby wrote: post #8

This looks impressive. Can you go into how you implemented the immutable world state each tick a bit more? I'm developing a game myself, and figuring out a good method of multithreading it took a lot of work. While I am content with the results, I wouldn't say I arrived at a good solution. It sounds like you went with a purely functional approach? Did you rebuild the entire gamestate each tick, or keep a list of chan…

This question was the most asked one during my livestream. It's a good one! Even though it's 01:33 right now after a 7 hour livestream, I'll try to answer it as clearly as possible, building from the foundation up to the high level. The Angeldust game world is tracked in an "active chunk set". A chunk is a 2D part of the world, 32x32x64 in-game blocks (meters). The active chunk set tracks only the chunks that contain…

Thanks for the explanation! I happened to be thinking of similar multithreading ideas (chunks and ping-ponging states) recently, but was stuck on what happens when computation happens across chunks in multiple threads. e.g. an object move across chunk border, or an object interaction affecting two objects in different chunks. Could you elavorate on your approach about these? I'm really curious

Re: Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

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travbrack wrote: post #122

Is there a Mac installer available for download? App store says the game isn't available in my region (USA)

Quick answer—both Steam and Itch.io offer DRM-free, standalone macOS versions:

Itch.io: https://metagaming.itch.io/angeldust

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/488440/

Long answer—you are the fourth hacker to report that the game isn't available for you on one of Apple's App Stores. I've contacted Apple right after my stream yesterday, now waiting for a reply. If anyone can help me diagnose this or get it working, that'd be greatly appreciated. I recently switched from a free tier to a paid tier for the product launch, so I might be messing up something.

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