Multiplayer RPG Series - Introduction

Here we are: look at the title, rub your eyes, look at the title one more time! :) Yeah, yeah, I know what you are going to say: “finally”. And you are right: finally! After a lot of time, finally I decided to start this blog series: who followed me certain remembers that I announced this multiple times, but for various reasons I always delayed the starting of this project. Continue reading

MMOGs optimizations

An user asked me about how I am dealing with main MMOGs problems in Heroes of Asgard, so I prepared an article about this topic.

DEFINITION

By definition, a MMOG should allow you to play with a huge amount of people at once and interact with them as if you are in a normal multiplayer game. All of this in a plausible, persistent world.

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A simple monster aggro system

During the development of Heroes of Asgard’s server logic I came across the development of a system for monsters and bosses’ AI (as would be obvious in any game).

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