{"id":600,"date":"2009-06-25T10:54:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T09:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=600"},"modified":"2009-06-25T10:54:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T09:54:28","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-being-an-awesome-mmo-tech-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/25\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-being-an-awesome-mmo-tech-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know about being an awesome MMO Tech Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really? O, RLY?<\/p>\n

Well, no, probably not – but this is the kind of opening statement I often make at industry-conference parties. In this rare case, at LOGIN<\/a> this year, I was showing something on my laptop at the time and happened to *type* my opening salvo, rather than just say it.
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\n(partly because I was so drunk I wasn’t confident I could form the words correctly; not *that* much alcohol, but I was mid-jetlag and I’d naively skipped dinner to go to meetings)<\/p>\n

For those of you in the industry that I run into at conferences, you know this is standard fare past a certain point in the evening (when I get bored of beating around the bush). This could also be a taster for the TRULY AWESOME conference talk I’ll be giving at AGDC this year, along with Marty Poulin, Rick Lambright, and Joe Ludwig … more on that later (once it’s been accepted), but briefly: we’re constructing a head-to-head session where we all argue the most extreme MMO tech viewpoints possible. I’m particularly looking forward to the “UDP vs TCP” Deathmatch…<\/p>\n

The original 4<\/h4>\n

Anyway…unchanged except for the brackets added for clarity:<\/p>\n

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  1. XSLT is your data(-handling) language\n
  2. Almost everything (serverside) is written in fn programming\n
  3. When you write your client, interface to the (functional) server cluster via Entity System\n
  4. …and a corollary…\n
  5. ANT is a sin against mankind if you think about the above 3 statements\n<\/ol>\n

    Which is great, except … it misses out whole swathes of things, because of the context at the time: I was in a conversation with a bunch of other lead programmers \/ CTO’s \/ tech directors \/ etc, and the *obvious* stuff wasn’t even worth mentioning. And our conversation was at the time about the “technical expert” facets of MMO development. I think.<\/p>\n

    A few more<\/h4>\n

    For completeness, there’s a few more I would add now:<\/p>\n

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    1. 2,000 players-per-server\n
    2. SQL\n
    3. DTP\n
    4. Your build system must be Perfect (mathematically)\n
    5. Your tests are AT, running as CI and CPT (performance testing)\n<\/ol>\n

      Oh, and of course – YOU HAVE TO COME TO OUR AGDC SESSION! ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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