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CaptainStiggz
CaptainStiggz

Reputation: 1907

Creating a Game Server

I'm interested in creating a server for an undetermined multiplayer game, either PC or mobile based. Any game server would obviously be event driven, asynchronous, and fast. I'm very experienced in web development, where it's common to use a framework such as Symfony for PHP or Django for Python.

Is there anything comparable to web frameworks for high performance game server development? ROS (Robot operating system) is an example of a complex C/C++ framework which is optimized for real time performance and includes common robot functionality. Is there something comparable designed for games?

Right now I'm most interested in creating a browser based WebGL game or an iPhone game. As such, I'm thinking of using Django as my request handler, and just doing communication over AJAX. I know that'd work nicely for a PC web game, but I'm not sure what the best ways of doing remote communication with an iPhone/other mobile device. Is it common to use a web framework to arbitrate mobile apps?

This is an open ended question, so any advice, thoughts, or links to further readings are much appreciated. If anyone has any good reading material I'd love to take a look.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 825

Answers (3)

sherif
sherif

Reputation: 2332

Is it common to use a web framework to arbitrate mobile apps?

yes it is take a look at webview (in android)

Is there anything comparable to web frameworks for high performance game server development? ROS (Robot operating system) is an example of a complex C/C++ framework which is optimized for real time performance and includes common robot functionality. Is there something comparable designed for games?

you dont need a realtime system for this just a very good server (depends on the amount of clients) in any case I would recommend java. It is almost as fast (if not faster) as c++ applicators (thanks to jit) and you can connect it to android easily (they are compatible) or use it as a classical web framework

Upvotes: 1

nycynik
nycynik

Reputation: 7541

It is defiantly possible to use a web framework. A lot of this is dependent on the type of game. The requirements are a lot different between words with friends, and Eliminator Pro. But in general, for a lot of game designs a web framework/service model works great.

You could also look in to existing projects, such as cocoas live.

Upvotes: 1

250R
250R

Reputation: 37151

Since you have background in web development, you might be interested in the experimental Node.js/HTML5 game by mozilla http://browserquest.mozilla.org/

The source code is available here https://github.com/mozilla/browserquest

It's using websockets for client/server communications.

Upvotes: 1

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