Technical details for a MMOG in perl

http://www.madmongers.org/talks/the-lacuna-expanse

by rubashov • 16 years ago

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wazoox4• 16 years ago

At least the home page and login look really impressive, that's promising :) I'm eagerly reading your presentation now....

wazoox4• 16 years ago

OK, I'm half the presentation, and this is really astounding. Aren't you afraid that Plack/PSGI and StarMan are a bit too much on the bleeding edge for such a wide project? Will it scale? How many people did work on this?

Kudos!

thomas11• 16 years ago

Amazing stuff. Modern Perl indeed.

Interesting that the whole server side is built on a JSON-RPC API. That enables writing completely new clients later on.

wazoox4• 16 years ago

Yes, too bad he didn't show some of the code :) I like it...

viraptor2• 16 years ago

Sorry, but I don't get it... you're saying Modern Perl, they're saying Modern Perl. What is it about?

They showed 2 classes in total, which look "normally" and the stack they're using. Does using cool modules count as "Modern Perl"? Their stack looks well understood / well designed, but that's it. They use a lot of new technologies, but there is nothing that makes me go "wow".

It's also ironic how they praise pngout (p. 57) for reducing image sizes, but publish 42MB presentation...

Not to criticise the project as a whole though - I love the idea of a client-independent server side and multiple interfaces for real time multiplayer. I was obsessed with that idea for a while and trying to do something similar one day - I'm amazed how they actually pulled it of. Great work there! Good organisation too with completing the web page in time for launch before everything else was completed - good first impressions...

wazoox4• 16 years ago

Oh by the way I've "told the friends", I've announced it on perlmonks :)

ritonlajoie• 16 years ago

Astonishing presentation, keep up the good work :)

swivelmaster• 16 years ago

My god it's a 45 meg PDF! Still, looking forward to reading...

revoltingx2• 16 years ago

Wow, I've been working on my own MMORPG (though I use Perl for all Admin stuff and SOME player stuff such as message retrieval.) I certainly haven't achieved the level of completeness this guy has. (or is it a team?)

I'd imagine that it's somewhat slow though. I assume it keeps the connection open, but if it doesn't the JSON encoding/decoding can also be a penalty.

Same with using MySQL, you have to use a network socket, and possibly disk bound depending on how MySQL is set up.

In any case, using the JSON-RPC style is very clean and fast to develop, and I use it for my MVC web projects. PERL rocks!

Technical details for a MMOG in perl

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