Corona Labs, the 2D mobile development platform that is passionate about empowering developers to build the best games and apps possible, recently announced the addition and immediate availability of GameSparks to their extensive plugin suite. Like Corona, GameSparks dedicates itself to accelerating the development process, and is passionate about enabling triple-A and independent developers alike to build
As part of our academic outreach program, we took a short trip up the road to our friends in Dublin Institute of Technology. As former graduates, it was great to get a chance to return and have all the memories of last minute submissions, sleep deprivation and pot noodle diets flood back. The lecture room
This year myself and others from GameSparks ventured down to the annual Games Fleadh, Ireland’s longest running event centred around game creation. Held in Thurles, Co. Tipperary, the festival is most well known for it’s game making and programming competitions, as well as hosting talks from industry professionals. We were honoured to be asked to
It’s that time of year again folks – when developers from around the world descend on San Francisco to showcase their wares, attend talks, and mingle with like-minded people at some of the best mixers the games industry has to offer. If you’re heading over to the epicentre of all things gamedev, make sure you drop
Over the past few months, the GameSparks tech team and I have been working hard to bring you the next generation of our developer portal. Here’s a run down of what drove this next stage in the portal’s evolution, along with technical details of how it was implemented. The Issues When we initially designed the portal
You may have caught some of the hints bouncing around our social media accounts lately that something pretty big is about to land. What you may not have known however, is that over the few past months, the GameSparks team have been shrouded in secrecy, working away on a series of momentous platform-wide updates referred to as
In the previous articles, we discussed the benefits of server authoritative design, and minimizing network and hardware IO to enable your game to scale effectively to many millions of players. Now, let’s take a look at how you make sure you’ve done all of that correctly. It’s test time! Test under load The only
In the previous instalment of the ‘writing a highly scalable, server-authoritative game’ series, we looked at optimizing client-server communication, and ensuring your communications won’t prevent scaling of your game to millions of players. Now, let’s look at some server-side techniques for ensuring that your code won’t become a bottleneck when you are handling large numbers
PewDiePie’s Tuber Simulator, developed by Montreal-based Outerminds, is the latest game created in collaboration with the world’s most famous Swedish YouTuber, media brand Revelmode, and GameSparks, which upon launch sent the internet berserk – going on to smash the seven day install record for a celebrity branded mobile game. PewDiePie smashes the seven day
In the previous post, we explored how building a server authoritative game can offer huge advantages to developers, including quick and easy control over in-game functionality, fraud and cheat detection/prevention, and providing reliability and consistency between connected peers. We also saw how using an authoritative server can help you to deal with unexpected issues and
