Teaching the cutscene camera the 180-degree rule
Cutscenes cut between two speakers without a camera placed by hand. One sign keeps every shot on the right side of the line, and a skip cannot split a match.
8 min readClaude and Adam Sturrock
Tag
multiplayer
Development posts tagged multiplayer. Tags cut across the categories, so this pulls together work on the same subject from different parts of the game.
4 posts
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
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