Chimera is a game project demonstrating scalable game microservices for the Conquer Online game client. Set in Ancient China, players compete for guild and clan supremacy in a rapidly destabilizing region. Check out my recent projects in game microservices and game design!
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I’m Gareth, but most people online know me as Spirited. I work as a Software Engineer in the game industry, specializing in high availability microservices for game systems. In my academics, I focused heavily on project courses in distributed systems, search systems, database design, networking, compilers, and system design. In my free time, I work on game projects and my photography. This website is dedicated to those personal projects; feel free to look around.
Let’s talk about the complexities and challenges of multi-threaded game server design, and the tools and solutions we have available to us.
This article covers my experience with Go for game service development vs. C# .NET Core, another managed language I had years of prior experience in.
Absalom Station’s Jumpgate-1, the most advanced energy research facility orbiting the Burning Mother with the sole objective of bridging the gap.
First imagined as a story piece, Chimera extends the Conquer Online game client to tell a narrative set in Ancient China.
This simple command line tool allows artists and map designers to change access, sound response, and elevation of tiles in Conquer Online.
This simple command line tool allows artists and map designers to add, remove, and move portals in Conquer Online.
Comet was developed within a 3-week period after full-time work hours to exercise .NET Core and the async-await pattern as a socket design.
This add-on to the World of Warcraft client acts as a demo project for interfacing with the client’s Lua API.
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