#game server

With the ever growing opportunities for creating online multiplayer games for different platforms, and many reachable and easy to use open-source tools, it has become much more convenient for developers to create exciting multiplayer games. In this talk, Sahar will create a simple multiplayer game to demonstrate it and talk about the issues she faced when creating her own games.

One of the great strengths of gaming on the web is how easily accessible it can be. However, this key advantage is often negated large assets and long load times, especially on slow mobile connections. In this talk, Alex Hawker from Google’s GameSnacks will illustrate how they are tackling this problem and some key learnings the team found while optimizing third party games and designing their own ultra-lightweight game engine.

By interacting with the Colyseus community over the past few years, some fundamental questions (not necessarily connected with the framework) seem to appear time and time again when developers start to build their own multiplayer games. This talk is going to cover some of these questions, as well as the most common scenarios and techniques you can start using today when building your own multiplayer game.

Vultr's Walt Ribeiro takes users through steps to easily launch game servers with Vultr using their One-Click Marketplace across more than 20 locations.In this talk, Walt will demonstrate how to configure your account, how to browse and deploy from Vultr Marketplace, and how to stand up a basic Minecraft server using Bash on Ubuntu. Other flagship products and tools developers love will be highlighted along the way!

This session explores common performance and memory issues that arise in WebGL builds produced using the Unity game engine. Examine how to identify, troubleshoot and avoid pitfalls that may lead to out-of-memory errors. Learn how to reduce game instability and improve game performance in WebGL builds.