Chimera is a game project demonstrating scalable game microservices for an existing MMORPG game client (Conquer Online). Set in Ancient China, players compete for guild and clan supremacy in a rapidly destabilizing region. This translates into fast-paced, realtime PVP.
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I work as a Senior Software Engineer in the game industry, specializing in high availability, scalable microservices for online games. In my academics, I focused heavily on project courses in distributed systems, database design, networking, cryptography, and system design. In my free time, I work on my game projects and photography. This website is dedicated to those personal projects; feel free to look around.
This article covers how Chimera loads configuration files using distributed methods, from files in Git to settings in memory for each service.
Setup build configurations in Docker Compose and remote debug your microservices running in Docker using delve from Visual Studio Code.
Let’s talk about the complexities and challenges of multi-threaded game server design, and the tools and solutions we have available to us.
Archives product listings on various asset marketplaces. It accepts a website and user, and then crawls and downloads their product listings.
QueueUserAPC DLL injection tool for launching the Conquer Online game client with modules for connection redirects and other useful features.
A test ship outfitted with the facility’s latest anti-matter compressor has just left the docking bay; the countdown has begun!
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.
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