Haskell spotted in the wild

Age of Empires 2 clone(OpenAge) has a game server written in Haskell(i assume for the thread safety or something)
https://github.com/SFTtech/openage-masterserver

I am using haskell for my compiler.

U MENA HASKAL?

Can Linux community design an original game for once? All open source games are direct clones of commercial products, beside maybe Nethack and MUDs, which are more of a game design research projects, that later gave birth to WoW and proper products.

>>4
gaming is for losers

>>4
make your're game

>>4
Lets be realistic, writing a game is just one of requirements for success in online gaming.
you need:
1.Host websites,forums, optionally code repos(do you trust github?).
2.Provide game servers(p2p games are either crippled in bandwidth or limited with NAT firewalls). Hosting and server cost money.
3.Somehow finance your expenses, usually within the game: so microtransactions, paid DLC. This would likely mean it'll be closed-source, to prevent cloning and stealing of in-game data.
4.Closed-source means you would target windows first and linux support will be relegated to "they'll will figure it out with Wine".
Hope this explains why Big Games on linux don't exist or are secondary to windows.

>>7
Also, consider that a modern game besides the code;
1.Needs top-quality art/models/special effects, most programmers can't draw.
2.Need voice acting and music.
3.Need expert level/map/environment design.
Sure, you can do it yourself and reuse open-source assets, but it wouldn't be as polished as AAA games.

>>7,8
These are not absolute requirements, its technically possible you could have a free, open-source game with p2p-type hosting, procedurally generated music/voice/models/levels/etc. But history doesn't show any such games existing.

>>9
Because people don't work for free and maintaining a game for years receiving nothing in return doesn't seem like a good deal.
Thats why indie devs go commercial after trying their hand at writing a game.

1.Host websites,forums, optionally code repos(do you trust github?).
2.Provide game servers(p2p games are either crippled in bandwidth or limited with NAT firewalls). Hosting and server cost money.

2 euro/month for a shitty one with 50GB storage and 200Mbps and 10 euro/month for a good one with 1TB storage and 1Gbps, wow it's nothing.
And even then you can just use gitlab and sign your commits while letting the users do the hosting, the cost will be 0 euro/month.

>>11
Games are not websites. If your games has 20-50 players a shitty server may handle it, but it will not scale.
The problem isn't bandwidth. Not storage.
The idea is simultaneous load on CPU from multiple connections requiring processing dynamic data. This forces to use much more expensive dedicated servers. And its servers, because one server doesn't scale - you'll have to rent more servers as your game grows.

Games are not websites. If your games has 20-50 players a shitty server may handle it, but it will not scale.

At this point someone else will host a server and the traffic will be split between the two. See? It scales.

you'll have to rent more servers as your game grows

Or have people offer their cpu time.

Or have people offer their cpu time.

That means giving control over the game data, allowing cheating and arbitrary banning of player. Game servers may host different versions or mods dictated by whims of hoster.

Centralization is far more polished experience. One login server, standard game data, no cheats no hacks, predictable moderation and rational rules that apply to all servers.
The decentralized server model eventually split a game into hundred distributions/mods of the original game with their own closed communities and servers. Each of these are short-lived instances which disappear as soon as hoster loses interest or means to host the game.

Classic starcraft provided only a centralized chat server with game selection screen, and games were hosted on individual computers which created a game instance locally to which others connected by IP(exposing IPs to other player is really bad idea with current state of security).
It was filled with tons of hacks, flooding, spam and abuse:
IIRC there was even an exploit that dropped your client if you saw a specially named game in the game list. And since most people had crappy connections there was plenty of lag and player were often booted from games.
This idea of spreading hosting to "other people" is misplaced trust and altruism. It only works in theory, with good networks and good people.

>>14

allowing cheating

FPS games suck anyway with people that you do not trust.
As for the other games? Cheating can easily be prevented.

and arbitrary banning of player

Is this not fine? Their server, their rules.

Game servers may host different versions or mods dictated by whims of hoster

Is this not great?

One login server

The need to login is cancerous, especially if there is a single centralised server. What if you are globally banned? You will not be able to even play with your friends then.

no cheats no hacks

Fortine disagrees. Non-fps games disagree.

predictable moderation and rational rules that apply to all servers

This is fascism.

>>16

exposing IPs to other player is really bad idea with current state of security

This is retarded, every server on the world as well as every p2p protocol in the world does that.
If you don't want to expose your IP do gaming over tor or whatever.

IIRC there was even an exploit that dropped your client if you saw a specially named game in the game list. And since most people had crappy connections there was plenty of lag and player were often booted from games.

Lol C.

This idea of spreading hosting to "other people" is misplaced trust and altruism

Exactly, which is why only retards use games with centralised servers. Why trust a central authority? It only works in theory.

decentralization is an aspie fantasy. it never works in practice.

>>18
It works, just not at the scale of performance required for hosting game servers in real-time. No real-time apps work fine(file/web/chat).

>>19
Turn-based games also work.

>>20
TURN MY ANUS

>>18
I don't know, e-mail turned out to be pretty popular.

>>22
MAIL MY ANUS