Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refunds

QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social · 13 days ago

Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refunds

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 12 days ago

I’m no architect but couldn’t they just switch the server code to something already in circulation that’s open source, or allow the community to make its own?

Is the server code that integral that it can’t be changed?

msage@programming.dev · 12 days ago

Depends on many things.

But ideally you want some game logic on the server side, to prevent cheating.

You can just sync world state between players, but that will always cause weird glitches.

I don’t develop games, so I’m no expert, but I my backend would have the ‘one true’ state of the world, and players would only interact with it by using verified actions.

I did one such game, but it was turn-based tabletop, not very comparable to open-world games.