Okay, the servers are now all running on Linux.  I had initially intended to wait until all development was mostly completed to make the transition but now I'm glad I've done it.  And, the more I use Visual Studio Code, the more I appreciate its simplicity and how well it's adopted the Linux env…

I have succeeded in creating a cross-platform, custom combination MQTT Client/Broker or "MQTT Router" that can Route messages to other MQTT Brokers/Routers.  They dynamically build connections to each other and test route latency.  They currently do NOT do any best route calculations.  But that …

Well, I've made some significant progress on my MQTT Router.  I've successfully brought 3 nodes online, 1 Primary and 2 Peers, and they are communicating Hellos and building connections between each other.

Here you see the Primary Router's output(Linux):

• Checks command line argument…

So, the MQTT exercises continue.  Now that I've established the basic topology.  Let's throw together a simple protocol to make it all work!! 

We'll call it MQTT-rp:

Okay, what's the purpose here?  We need a protocol to allow a combined MQTT server & client to become a Message Ro…

The past few days I've been working on figuring out how the "peer-to-peer" bits of my game network are going to work.  For now I'm testing with MQTT, because it's light and fast and reliable, but you could pretty much replace MQTT with ZeroMQ or just some raw TCP/UDP sockets code or anything els…

I've been having some trouble explaining myself lately.   So I thought I might draw some more pictures instead.  Please tell me, does this paint a clearer picture of my rambling madness?  In the picture below you will find my effort to explain how the system I'm building is structured, conceptua…

I posted this in the forum earlier from my phone and then realized it wasn't really a forum type post...  So, here it is in the permanent record of my project blog where it belongs.

So, I've been struggling with my perception of time.  Haha, at least with how it pertains to the game system I…

Here's a look at the first server executing from the Linux environment.  I chose to move the Action Server over first because it's still pretty small code-wise and didn't have any file system code that would need touched.  Was going for an easy win.  It worked.

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Well, since adopting the KV database into my server architecture I've begun to rethink many of my earlier assumptions, one of them being that I would continue developing my servers on Windows until I was past alpha stage...  Since I've already brought a Linux solution into the core of the archit…

Spent most of the evening sorting out my thoughts as to how the data will flow between my servers and clients.  Here's the final result.

I'm moving forward with Redis as my KV db, it should be easy enough to switch to so…