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Technical

Finding the Virtualization Sweet Spot with Proxmox and Ansible

What to choose in physical servers, virtual machines/VMs, Docker containers/LXC, Kubernetes, and hyperscalers like GCP/AWS? Proxmox, apparently.

Development

With Allies Like These: Cooperative Conflict

Group success, personal rewards, friction between allies, and conflict with enemies: there are many layers of in-game conflict in Blasphemess.

Development

Making An Engaging Combat System In A Text-Based RPG

Mortal squads with rocket launchers, angel mechs with miniguns, sword-wielding cyborgs, and more. What systems make fun and cinematic combat?

Lore

What Is The Blasphemess Game?

Blasphemess is a browser based multiplayer RPG, set in a multiverse where oppressors have spread like wildfire. The conflict is multi-sided.

Technical

Python Celery Task Queue For My Browser Game

Outside the HTTP request cycle, I need something that handles asynchronous tasks, like periodically running NPC actions. Enter Celery.

Technical

SQLAlchemy, Race Conditions, And PostgreSQL Advisory Locks

Race conditions and game state consistency are a hard problem in the concurrent world of FastAPI. Can SQL locks be an easy solution?

Development

Open Source is the Way

It's both beneficial and problematic to develop something in the open. Do it anyway! I'm trying to, with this web game project.

Technical

Game Server Sharding: Blasphemess Clusters and the Portal

Vertical scaling servers can only get you so far; horizontal scaling and sharding is a great complement to support massive scale.

Technical

SQL Check Constraints: Ensuring One Item Has One Owner

Items can be referenced in several tables in the database, which means they have multiple foreign keys. How do I ensure ownership of an item?

Development

Python Full Stack Development and Game Design

Between FastAPI in Python and Svelte's JS/CSS/HTML combination, I've finally fallen in love with full stack engineering as I build this game.