PhoenixMMOEngine

Develop a scalable MMO engine using Phoenix/Elixir with some unique things

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#Features

• Dashboard is a set of maps, only users directly invited or via team can see maps

• Users can see when another users moves between maps on dashboard

• Types of updates

• Transactional updates

• Optimistic UI update in anticipation of commit

• Non-transactional view updates

• Ability to follow other users, in which case your UI sync (movements only)

• Detection of user coming online and appearing in map

• Online/offline tracking

• Transactional semantics - guaranteed message ordering

• Permissions management, organizations, teams, invitations

Implementation details

• Ajax upward path - but websockets return (transacationally synchronized)
• Ajax immediate for modal interactions (not synchronized with channel)
• Runs in HTML5 with Websockets

What is this useful for

• mmo game engine
• chat engines
• strategy/skill games, like poker

(c) 2015 Thomas O'Rourke / Upstream Innovations Ltd.

thomas . orourke@upstreaminno.com