How large is numPlayersMax, typically? And how big is the gameState field?
On Friday, August 24, 2012 12:37:37 AM UTC+2, Mark wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to see if it's feasible to write a game using app engine as the
> backend.
>
> The task I'm most worried about is the discoverability of games. A user
> can create a new game (which creates a Game object in the datastore). Then
> other users can hit an endpoint to get a listing of open games, sorted by
> creation date.
>
> Creating a new game will be a very low frequency operation, so no worries
> there. Users polling for new open games will be much higher in frequency
> though. Each time a user requests a listing of games, I need to go fetch a
> page of Game objects from the datastore. Let's say a page size = 20. And
> the Game object looks like this:
>
> class Game {
> String name;
> long timestampCreated;
> long timestampStarted;
> String mapName;
> String hostUsername;
> int numPlayersMax;
> List<String> playerNames; // usernames of other players currently
> joined
> Text gameState; // game state as serialized json string
> }
>
> the query would be something like:
>
> select Games where timestampStarted = 0
> and playerNames.size() < numPlayersMax
> order by timestampCreated DESC limit 20;
>
> First, I'm hoping it's possible to avoid loading the Text field in this
> listings query since it's not needed for rendering yet. Still there would
> be a fair number of fields to fetch and deserialize, and I'm afraid my
> costs would quickly make it impractical.
>
> I could try keeping a list of open games in memcache, but not sure if I
> could achieve consistency between the memcache state and the datastore
> state of games. Will be looking into that.
>
> I've got a very similar game to this already published, using a single
> jetty instance + mysql on one machine. It's starting to get too much
> traffic now, and scaling would be a pain. App engine's scalability looks
> great for something like this, but not sure if the # of writes and
> inefficient reads I need to perform are a good idea.
>
> Any general thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. I'm starting to
> dig into this now and any thoughts on how you'd implement the above would
> be great. In my already-published game (mentioned above), I ran a dark test
> where I'd call through to a (quickly implemented) mirror of the game
> running on app engine. It quickly ate through the daily quota!
>
> Thanks
>
>
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