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Yuan Gao

@meseta.dev

GameDev, working on an MMO and trying force better tools onto indie devs Website: meseta.dev Former birdsite: x.com/mesetatron

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Yuan Gao @meseta.dev · 24/12/2023

gamemaker devs, do you know about the fabled "s" variable?

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Yuan Gao @meseta.dev · 30/11/2023

Lol, I just reinvented PHP in Gamemaker Using HTMX, it dynamically loads bits of DOM rendered in GML into the page. So it's doing SSR, but the server is written in, of all languages, GML With a little work, we should be able to make an approximation of MVVM

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Yuan Gao @meseta.dev · 30/11/2023

As well as allowing the sharding service (responsible for managing the fleet of gamemaker servers) to control which room the server is running, or to send the server Idle when it's not being used

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Yuan Gao @meseta.dev · 30/11/2023

Since HTTP and REST in particular are the kings of server-side stacks (or perhaps at least the common denominator), it made sense to give GameMaker the ability to be an HTTP server For example, in our MMO backend, we use this to provide kubernetes /healthz healthchecks.

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Yuan Gao @meseta.dev · 30/11/2023

Want to see a dumb thing I made? A full on web server (HTTP/1.1) written in GML, using raw TCP socket handling Since I'm on vacation, I spent a little time updating it to use all the new goodness in the GameMaker Beta Runtime 2023.1100 than make all the string-parsing nicer.

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Yuan Gao @meseta.dev · 04/08/2023

Waiting for Gamemaker to run, so I can run Gamemaker while I run

a laptop running Gamemaker on a treadmill

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Yuan Gao @meseta.dev · 24/07/2023

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Yuan Gao @meseta.dev · 18/07/2023

In other good news, my local supermarket sells Hoegaarden beer, which I quite like, for ¥6.90, which is like $1 USD much fun times could be had

supermarket isle in China, selling Hoegaarden beer for 6.9 RMB

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Yuan Gao @meseta.dev · 17/06/2023

well that's ominous

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Yuan Gao @meseta.dev · 17/06/2023

Damn, ok, so for my first post gotta be a bit more shitposty I'm currently in China, where the English translators are doing much better these days than the "engrish" that was prevalent a couple decades ago, but it's quite amusing when they don't use euphemisms that native speakers would

Chinese sign that has an English translation that reads "No dog shitting here please"

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