Technical Blog
Over the years, much has been written on the internet about developing multiplayer games. However, there is surprisingly little information available when it comes to deploying and managing production game infrastructure. Given the nature of multiplayer games, traditional backend infrastructure techniques often don't apply – multiplayer games are inherently
Technical Blog
An important decision developers have to decide up front when developing a multiplayer game is whether to use a peer-to-peer architecture or a client-server architecture. In a peer-to-peer setup, clients directly communicate with each other. With client-server, all communications go through a centralized server layer. The Hathora framework uses a
Technical Blog
More multiplayer games are being developed than ever before, but building & launching a successful online multiplayer game remains one of the most notoriously difficult endeavors in the software world. The biggest challenges developers face are (1) choosing and correctly implementing the technologies to enable multiplayer, and (2) ending up
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