Experiences of Running an Online Game for 3 Years

1 · Dennis Felsing · June 8, 2016, 10 p.m.
It’s been roughly 3 years since DDraceNetwork (DDNet) started in the summer of 2013. Last year I wrote a non-technical History of DDNet. Today in this post we will dive into the technical side of what makes DDNet run. For the uninitiated, DDNet is an open-source modification of Teeworlds, a retro multiplayer shooter. DDNet is a game in which you, instead of killing each other, cooperate with each other to work your way through challenging maps, trying to beat the map or get a better time than ot...