Stories by gafferongames

Absolute State of Unreal 2026

The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games

Free Network Bandwidth Amazon GameLift Servers Is Here!

The Cost of AI

So I'm making a 1000 player space game

Proton a new Linux kernel module for crypto functions callable from XDP

Rematch Accelerated by Network Next

Back in a few months, I'm networking an octopus

Sending millions of packets per-second with AF_XDP

Planning server locations for your multiplayer game

What is lag? Baby don't hurt me, no more

Creating a matchmaker for your multiplayer game

The case for network acceleration in multiplayer games

Choosing the right network model for your multiplayer game

Creating a first person shooter with one million players

Creating a first person shooter that scales to millions of players

Writing highly scalable backends in UDP. The solution

Writing scalable backends in UDP

XDP for game programmers

Quantum mechanics to fluid simulation – the story of everything