How to do a server for MMO game?

[Drixil]

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Short answer is if you want to write any of the core stuff yourself, it’s complicated and you won’t get far.

As an example, and I’m not here to advertise anything, I have been working on a next gen mmo server for over a year now. You can look at just how much is involved it’s on github https://github.com/gamemachine/gamemachine.

I’ve been working primarily on server side architectures for about 20 years, I’ve worked on games that handle south of a billion requests per day, and writing core mmo architecture is still challenging.

So the best answer I can give you, is find a commercial solution and use that. My system is probably too compllicated for someone that doesn’t have any experience with multiplayer at all, it’s more for people who do and want something that scales to silly levels.

Photon, Bigworld, there are a number of commercial solutions all targetting slightly different audiences.

Chris

I just thought of a interesting idea (not sure if it will work or not) you could get openNel (which I was a dev on for many years) well it appears Ryzom has continued our work… you can find it here http://www.ryzomcore.org/

a few things to keep in mind is that the core network used to be separate from the graphics I don’t know if you can separate the network engine now days. When I left the project we were in search of a graphics engine so the network and db code probably was left separate when Nevax took it back over from us. Anyway that may be a option for you. Nel has had many years of development from very good programmers