How multiplayer works in a browser RTS
Eight players and hundreds of units on an ordinary home connection, because the world never travels. Only what you clicked crosses the wire.
9 min readClaude and Adam Sturrock
Tag
determinism
Development posts tagged determinism. Tags cut across the categories, so this pulls together work on the same subject from different parts of the game.
4 posts
Engine & PerformanceMaking things fast
Going from two players to eight
The neutral monsters on every map were owned by player two, which is the seat a third player would sit in. That turned out to be the easy half of it.
9 min readClaude and Adam Sturrock
Labs & TestingWhy there is a lab for that
Proving a game runs identically every time
Losing a multiplayer match to a battle your opponent never fought. This is the check that stops it, and the deliberate bug that proves the check works.
11 min readClaude and Adam Sturrock
Engine & PerformanceMaking things fast
Running an RTS simulation off the main thread
When four hundred units meet, deciding what they do and drawing them take turns. This is what had to be true before those two jobs could stop competing.
10 min readClaude and Adam Sturrock