MMORPG Prototype Development

Multiplayer games and networking are probably my favourite areas in the game development. To deepen my knowledge in these areas, I have decided to go lower level, and create a simple proof-of-concept MMORPG prototype. I have used a networking API ‘DarkRift2’, which allows for standard client-server multiplayer development in C# on both ends, on a simultaneous TCP and UDP connection. The game was handled and hosted on Google Cloud with ‘Compute’ and ‘Storage’ instances , and an ‘SQL’ database instance using MySQL. The server code utilized many common techniques in multiplayer development, including an ‘area-of-interest’ system to optimize amount of data sent over the network.