All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

My version of football was The Beautiful Game , or as most Americans know it, soccer. As I started to better understand this version of football, it was easy for me to get excited about the game as well as what was happening behind the scenes. Growing up in the Netherlands, American football was largely a foreign concept to me.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

The post Changing the game to predictive AIOps with Davis™ appeared first on Dynatrace blog. To learn more about how Dynatrace is building probabilistic prediction AI methods into the Dynatrace platform , watch the full presentation using the local links below. You can find the full list of Perform sessions available on demand.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 7, 2021

The game lost over 75% of players on Steam. One key learning for me is the lack of continuous delivery and modern software engineering practices in the gaming industry. Traditional games are monolithic applications and traditionally developed as a boxed-product (pay-to-play).

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DZone

AUGUST 19, 2019

The mobile gaming market is currently emerging and is likely to continue growing in the next 10 years. The mobile games are becoming an inevitable part of our lives, attracting billions of users in all countries worldwide. The mobile game testing has much in common with the process of software testing. billion by 2023.

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Tech News Gather

MARCH 22, 2022

It is a fact that from earlier times people thought that playing games was a waste of time. The one who plays game whether on a mobile, laptop, console or any gaming device is not making his time productive. It is because people are not aware of the benefits of gaming. Benefits of Gaming.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 14, 2020

When it comes to developing a game, at some point in time you’re going to want to animate some component within the game. A few months back, I wrote a tutorial titled, Animate Spritesheets in a Phaser Game , around creating a spritesheet and then animating it within a Phaser game.

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DZone

JUNE 16, 2023

Kubernetes has emerged as a game-changing technology, revolutionizing the world of container orchestration. Amidst this pursuit, Kubernetes has emerged as a game-changing technology, revolutionizing the world of container orchestration. But what exactly is Kubernetes, and why has it garnered such widespread acclaim? Let's take a look!

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The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 31, 2021

When you’re developing a game, whether it be 2D or 3D, you’re going to need to add menus with buttons at some point. These buttons could be as simple as a means to exit the game, or something more complex. In the Unity game development framework, there are a few ways to accomplish buttons.

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The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

If you play a lot of games, you probably noticed at some point in time that the version number or build number of the game is often presented clearly on the screen. This is often not by accident and is instead a way to show users that they are using the correct version of your game.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Remember all the cheat codes you could use in old-school games back in the day? Ever wonder how you could add cheat codes to your own games? Adding cheat codes to your game is a great way to leave your imprint. In this tutorial we’re going to see how to add keystroke driven cheat codes to a game built with Unity and C#.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

When you’re building a game, you’re probably going to have more than one screen. For example, you might have an initial menu screen, a main gameplay screen, and a game over screen. These screens can be thought of as scenes in a game, the same way you can think of scenes in film. x and simple JavaScript.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Barry Pollard. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-09T17:34:14+00:00.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 22, 2021

When it comes to game development, you’re almost always going to need to store information about your player. This information could be around how many health points you currently have in the game or it can extend beyond the game-play experience and into details such as the billing information for the person playing the game.

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The Polyglot Developer

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

If you’ve been keeping up with the game development series that me ( Nic Raboy ) and Adrienne Tacke have been creating, you’ve probably seen how to create a user profile store for a game and move a player around on the screen with Unity.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you’ve been keeping up with the content on the MongoDB Developer Portal , you’ll know that a few of us at MongoDB ( Nic Raboy , Adrienne Tacke , Karen Huaulme ) have been working on a game titled Plummeting People, a Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout tribute game.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When you create a game, you may find yourself needing to accept keyboard input from the user. I’m not talking about using the keyboard to control your player, but instead to accept text from the keyboard to be used as a username or for the in-game chat. There are better ways!

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The Polyglot Developer

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Are you working on a game in Unity and finding yourself needing to make use of a database in the cloud? Storing your data locally works for a lot of games, but there are many gaming scenarios where you’d need to leverage an external database. Up until now, we haven’t actually had the game communicate with MongoDB.

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The Polyglot Developer

JULY 29, 2020

When it comes to MongoDB, an often overlooked industry that it works amazingly well in is gaming. It works great in gaming because of its performance, but more importantly its ability to store whatever complex data the game throws at it. Let’s say you wanted to create a drawing game like Pictionary.

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The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 25, 2021

When developing a game, in most circumstances you’re going to need to store some kind of data. The possibilities are endless and it’s more heavily dependent on the type of game. This means that you can use Realm in your Unity game to store and sync data with only a few lines of code.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 8, 2021

I’ve been a gamer since the 1990s, so 2D side-scrolling platformer games like Super Mario Bros. Today, 2D games are still being created, but with the benefit of having connectivity to the internet, whether that be to store your player state information, to access new levels, or something else. hold a certain place in my heart.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Performance is everything when it comes to video games. Lag and stutter due to dropped frames can easily ruin your game. This means that you have to be considerate of how you manage your game resources to prevent unnecessary operations and stress on the client computer or mobile devices running the game.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re building a game, you’re probably going to need audio such as sound effects and background music at some point in time. Without audio, the gameplay experience can feel quite boring, which no one wants their game to be labeled as. x game in the form of sound effects triggered by collisions.

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The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 11, 2021

Did you know that MongoDB has a Realm SDK for the Unity game development framework that makes working with game data effortless? It’s currently an alpha release, but you can already start using it to build persistence into your cross platform gaming projects. Games such as Temple Run.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So you’re at a point in your game where you need to allow the player to interact with the game. While keyboard events are common in a lot of games, they aren’t the only way to interact, and they may not even be the best way to interact if you’re planning on taking your game into a mobile setting.

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DZone

JANUARY 21, 2024

Think about retailers gearing up for Black Friday, sports betting companies preparing for specific games, or marketing teams orchestrating major campaigns. Remember when the Game of Thrones spinoff had technical difficulties during its premiere ? Millions of viewers were left disappointed, and HBO's reputation took a hit.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

When it comes to game development, an often forgotten component comes in the form of a database for storing gameplay information. The database can contribute to numerous roles, such as storing user profile information, game state, and so much more. In this tutorial, we’re going to look at a different data component for a game.

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The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 19, 2020

In 2D games, it is not uncommon to want animated backgrounds. Having static images in your levels doesn’t necessarily add to the game-play experience, so a little bit of motion can go a long way. x game to add an infinite scrolling effect to the background in our game.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 6, 2020

When it comes to game development, you should probably have some ideas written down before you start writing code or generating assets. So what should be planned before developing your next game? Adrienne Tacke , Karen Huaulme , and myself ( Nic Raboy ) are in the process of building a game.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 9, 2020

When it comes to game development, or at least game development that has an online component to it, you’re going to stumble into the territory of user profile stores. These are essentially records for each of your players and these records contain everything from account information to what they’ve accomplished in the game.

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The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 26, 2020

In this tutorial, we’re going to explore collisions once more in a Phaser game, but this time with Matter.js Physics for Sprite Collisions in a Phaser Game appeared first on The Polyglot Developer. I recently wrote about handling collisions in a Phaser 3.x is another supported physics engine in Phaser 3.x The post Use Matter.js

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

To address these challenges, AI has emerged as a game-changing force, revolutionizing the field of automated software testing. The demand for faster, more reliable, and efficient testing processes has grown exponentially with the increasing complexity of modern applications.

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DZone

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this Java 21 tutorial, we dive into virtual threads, a game-changing feature for developers. Virtual threads are a lightweight and efficient alternative to traditional platform threads, designed to simplify concurrent programming and enhance the performance of Java applications.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Rather than being a mere enabler, application integration is an equal player in this game, as it not only leverages but also elevates the capabilities of IoT systems. While that's fascinating, what often goes underappreciated is the role of application integration in amplifying the utility and scalability of these devices.

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The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 17, 2019

Let’s take for example gaming and online multiplayer games. While certain aspects of the game would make sense to use REST or GraphQL, not everything would feel responsive enough. and that server will communicate with each of our games running as Angular applications. Instead it makes sense to use sockets.

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DZone

JANUARY 26, 2023

This article explores case studies for fraud prevention from companies such as Paypal, Capital One, ING Bank, Grab, and Kakao Games that leverage stream processing technologies like Kafka Streams, KSQL, and Apache Flink.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The answer lies in the complex, real-world scenarios you'll encounter in game development. Whether you're working on a high-performance 3D game or a real-time simulation, the advanced techniques covered here will help you write coroutines that are not only functional but also optimized for performance and easier to debug.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Apache Spark , a robust open-source data processing framework, has emerged as a game-changer in this domain. In today's data-driven world, efficient data processing plays a pivotal role in the success of any project. This guide is valuable for both data beginners and professionals, serving as a checklist for optimization opportunities.

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