May 4🚀 Colyseus is fully independent again!It’s a new and exciting chapter for Colyseus! — “Colyseus Arena” has been shut down on 31 March 2023. “Colyseus Arena” was a managed hosting service developed and provided by the company Lucid Sight, Inc. My relationship with the company was limited to a consulting contract that has also been terminated on 31 March 2023. Colyseus Cloud is the…Colyseus4 min readColyseus4 min read
Sep 18, 2020Working Solo: How To Stay Focused and MotivatedThis post is for anyone working on a side project, or passion project, and ends up feeling lost or stuck — ultimately resulting in an abandoned project, or shifting the attention to something else. TLDR: I’ve created a Trello Board Template which I’m using for every single project I’m participating…Indiedev3 min readIndiedev3 min read
Mar 28, 2019Colyseus 0.10: Introducing the New State Serialization AlgorithmI’m really excited to announce the release 0.10 of Colyseus. This version basically introduces a more performant state serialization algorithm and a different way of decoding the state in the client-side. It’s currently available for JavaScript, Defold Engine and Unity3D.JavaScript4 min readJavaScript4 min read
Jul 17, 2017Colyseus — HTML5 Multiplayer Games Made Simple (v0.5.0 update)Almost 2 years ago, the very first version of Colyseus was published. It started out as a wild and naive experiment for my own multiplayer experiments. Since then, the community slowly started to try it out and release some games using it, such as: GunFight.io — made by @tinydobbins Splatty.io…Multiplayer2 min readMultiplayer2 min read
Mar 15, 2017Authoring TypeScript/JavaScript librariesTLDR: Check out a simple and productive template for authoring libraries with browser testing: https://github.com/endel/library-template.ts At exactly one year ago, André Staltz wrote about why all JavaScript libraries should be authored in TypeScript. I must admit I wasn’t a TypeScript believer at that time. A lot has changed since then…JavaScript1 min readJavaScript1 min read
Feb 2, 2016HOOK — Open-source alternative to Parse.com written in PHPHOOK — Open-source alternative to Parse.com written in PHP With the official announcement of Parse.com retirement, I feel that I have to “sell” the backend I’ve been working on in the past couple of years. HOOK is a backend as a service designed with real needs of a digital agency…Parse1 min readParse1 min read
Jan 3, 2016Colyseus — Minimalist MMO Game Server for Node.jsRead the 0.10 update. Read the 0.5.0 update. For the last couple of months I’ve been prototyping some multiplayer games in HTML5/JavaScript. I thought it wouldn’t be painful since the community has grown a lot — having a library ready-to-go for everything you want out there. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem…JavaScript3 min readJavaScript3 min read
