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tunarob
tunarob

Reputation: 3038

Django real-time game backend

I plan to make an online game. It will be a full real-time during play. For my website backend I have used Django. Database and other things are almost done. What is the best way to make user client side and server side backend for play in realtime? As I use Django it would be nice to have it in Python. We plan that there will be minimum ~1000 online players all the time. Twisted/Tornado/Node.js or maybe something else?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1810

Answers (3)

Mickey Blaivas
Mickey Blaivas

Reputation: 23

Developing your own backend server sounds as interesting project. But from my experience it becomes a very significant of your R&D effort.

It starts with developing core backend components, dealing with servers, installs, patches, security issues and more. On top of it, you will need to create admin systems to manage your player, levels, xp, integration to stores and more... and then, you have the reports (installs, retention, etc'...)

I would strongly recommend using existing backend platforms.

Upvotes: 0

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 1210

I think you should keep separately Django - which is used for general site functions, and Tornado - which is used for realtime data. I think you should use some Redis to store/read data and communicate between django and tornado, so prevent using database access directly from tornado.

Upvotes: 0

Linus Thiel
Linus Thiel

Reputation: 39261

Tornado is very light and pretty nice in my opinion. You could integrate it with Django in various ways -- e.g. Integrate Tornado in Django, Integrating Django with Tornado's web server -- or just run it alongside Django behind whatever web server you use.

Node is so fun that you might tire of Django. :-)

Upvotes: 1

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