| tangle | gwc-rs | |
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| 2 | 1 | |
| 1,156 | 3 | |
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| 2.0 | 2.4 | |
| about 1 year ago | 12 months ago | |
| TypeScript | Rust | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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tangle
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Ambient: The Multiplayer Game Engine
This seems like a mostly very well thought out design (I have a qualm about one detail but maybe they're hiding it), I've been rebuilding an old prototype of mine in a very similar way.
The DoD ECS pattern should allow for easy state/log shipping to clients, with those 2 parts you can easily build what fighting games terms as "rollback" based netcode.
Rollback is often characterized as complicated but clean, the truth is that if you structure your data around rollback capable simulation from day one it becomes easy (and DoD ECS naturally fits there just like shipping to separate CPU parts back on the PS3)
This "trick" of fully shipping state images isn't exactly new, some emulators has done memory image shipping in the past and Ian Kattlewell published a WASM-heap shipping experiment(1) recently that works on the same principle.
Compared to the snapshot/heap shipping of emulators/WASM is that Ambient should allow for server introspection and upgrades of state.
Overall I like Ambient, and I'd recommend a look. Only big omission I see right now is audio being missing and it can be a tricky part to synchronize (due to how mixing works).
1: https://github.com/kettle11/tangle
- Simple Multiplayer / Networked WebAssembly
gwc-rs
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Ambient: The Multiplayer Game Engine
That is why we now have incremental linking, hot-code reloading and for the lucky ones on VC++, modules.
This toy application https://github.com/pjmlp/gwc-rs takes about 15 minutes to compile from scratch on a humble Asus 1215B, whereas the C++ original (thanks to having Gtkmm available as binary), takes about 2 minutes.
What are some alternatives?
tokio-tungstenite - Future-based Tungstenite for Tokio. Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation
Ambient - The multiplayer game engine
kajiya - 💡 Experimental real-time global illumination renderer 🦀
colyseus - âš” Multiplayer Framework for Node.js
wgpu - Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api.
rend3 - Easy to use, customizable, efficient 3D renderer library built on wgpu.