Join us on this journey through the challenges and intricacies of crafting fun gaming experiences!
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Stuck in the Wall
Here’s a weird bug that took about a month to crack. Sometimes when playing multiplayer, a party member, host or not, would get stuck in the wall, unable to move, but only visually for other party members. The player was moving around just fine on their screen. What was going on? Checking the network calls,…
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WordPress Page Cache
When this WordPress website was just some text and images, I ignored the warnings of there not being a cache for static pages. I talked about moving images to an S3 bucket which mitigated the slowness that I was experiencing. However, once I added the WooCommerce plugin to add a merch shop for this weksite,…
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Multiplayer Development Challenges
When a single player project goes to multiplayer, a bunch of assertions that could be made before cannot be made anymore such as: To go from single player to multiplayer, members of the party relinquish their right to move the enemies, and allows the server or host to determine the enemy movements. We are also…