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HandmadeCon 2015 - Pat Wyatt

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  • Recommended by 2 people: 2 on Hacker News.
  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2018 to 2023.
  • Presented by Pat Wyatt, former Blizzard and ArenaNet developer
  • May be out of date. Uploaded 10 years ago, in an area where tools change fast.

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

33K views10 years ago2 recommendations

Game developmentDistributed systemsGame programmingNetworking and protocols

Pat Wyatt discusses the network code, architecture, and engineering decisions behind classic games like Diablo and Guild Wars.

For more information, or to purchase tickets to a future HandmadeCon, see handmadecon.org.

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2 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended as an excellent interview on game networking, MMO architecture, and lessons learned from early multiplayer games.

gameswithgoon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game”

What is fascinating is the guy who coded and designed the multiplayer is actually a genius, he was just inexperienced at the time. His next big project was a huge, complicated, MMO that you could start playing before it finished downloading, and everything worked from day 1, which is rather unique among MMOs!] edit, sorry: Pat Wyatt of Guild Wars good interview with him talking about screwing up Diablo and doing a good job on Guild Wars link to this video
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andaion Hacker News • Recommends

On “MMO Architecture: clients, sockets, threads and connection-oriented servers”

See also: Patrick Wyatt interviewed by Casey Muratori at HandmadeCon: link to this video He was the 2nd employee at Blizzard, did the netcode for their games and also for Guild Wars. His blog is great link
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xjayon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The Making of Warcraft (2012)”

He was at HandmadeCon 2015 1 where they talked about the network code/design in games he had worked on, and various subjects relating to the gaming industry. This article was referenced at Gamasutra a few days ago, to which his response was that he should blog more. 2 1 HandmadeCon 2015 - Pat Wyatt link to this video 2 Patrick Wyatt link
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evilturnipon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Foundations of Game Engine Development”

There are a lot fewer people with this expertise, and of those, that can communicate it well and have the time to write a book I'm sure makes them a relatively small group of people. They probably mostly work in AAA studios, since only they have the scale and money to encounter and tackle these problems. I do wish more of them would, however. Someone like Pat Wyatt comes to mind: link to this video
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