alt Hacker NewsInteresting. I'm a big fan of MMORPGs so hearing that this is how they were made is really cool.
I've always wondered what kind of stack games like EverQuest were built on.
Interesting. I'm a big fan of MMORPGs so hearing that this is how they were made is really cool.
I've always wondered what kind of stack games like EverQuest were built on.
I started playing World of Warcraft at the same time I was studying database systems at university and had a similar curiosity. Twenty years later the AzerothCore project pretty much satisfies this curiosity, they've done an incredible job reverse engineering the game server and its database.
https://www.azerothcore.org/wiki/database-world