AlrecenkNew World Fabric devlog goes over the interface and rules for the system that automatically networks running C++ code with real examples from Narball. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVlNlhh-mT8
I was looking at my #WorldFabric APIs yesterday, and the thought crossed my mind "none of my employers would have allowed me to build this". The answer to why I can build something big companies can't is not that I'm special. It's that their culture doesn't allow spending years to make something nice for developers that doesn't generate revenue.
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How does #WorldFabric keep players synchronized over the internet with so many moving objects? Trick question: it doesn't! World Fabric only maintains local causal consistency. The further apart players are, the weaker the causal link, and the more wibbly wobbly timey whimey it gets. #Narball #networkprogramming #doctorWho
It gets lost in the algorithms and narwhals sometimes, but #WorldFabric exists to undermine centralized control of the #metaverse. You don't need this technology if you're hosting your game on an expensive server in an optimal data center location, but it levels the playing field when you're not. World Fabric makes it easier for solo developers to create good experiences hosting with triple digit ping, and that's going to matter in the future if we don't want all of our virtual spaces to be corporate hellscapes.
The overhead #WorldFabric adds scales with the number of events, not the number of objects. Every collision is an event, so I could probably push more objects (and keep players connected) if they weren't all smushed together in a constrained area. I think the rendering could handle 100k static instances fine too if the physic wasn't choking the CPU.
#WorldFabric can automatically synchronize arbitrary C++ code over the internet with relativistic latency hiding, and it's now fast and stable enough to handle over a thousand interactable moving objects under real-world network conditions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wazOVYCeuIk #cplusplus #coding #networkprogramming #metaverse
Narball 1,000 balls+6 players online test match
Narball is now available on itch.io : https://worldfabric.itch.io/narball
Narball playtest went well tonight. There were some crashes 😞, but no desyncs 😀, and we hit a new record of 9 players in one match. Check out this chaos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mALaRkp3hjs
Narball 9 player play-test match
If you'd like to distract yourself from the blizzard or dystopia tonight, I'm hosting another open Narball playtest at 8PM EST on Discord : https://discord.gg/5BpnyeG8q8
Narball teaches us a great many things about the narwhal condition.
