Note: this post is cross-posted on Cubeia.com. Last post I looked at the motivation for writing asynchronous multiplayer games on top of Firebase. This post I’ll sketch an outline on how to actually do it.The first thing to consider is that we now have two notions: The Firebase concept of area (called “table” for [...]
fungrimNote: this post is cross-posted on Cubeia.com. Since the social web started to expand, asynchronous multiplayer games seems to really have taken off. So my immediate question is obviously, can I do that on Firebase? And the short answer is: of course. For the long answer, please read on.Let’s recap first. In a traditional [...]
fungrimNote: this post is cross-posted on Cubeia.com. Now we have released a candidate for script support in Firebase! This is something we’re very excited about as it means no more Java (unless you want to of course, old hands like me aren’t likely to change in a hurry).This is a first release so there’s no support for [...]
fungrimI’ve always wanted to add dependency injection support to Firebase, and today we released a candidate for Guice! And if you ask me, it’s very cool indeed.The documentation is a bit sparse at the moment, but can be found on our wiki. The rest of the post I’ll just show how a small fictional game would look using Guice.To [...]
fungrimNote: this post is cross-posted on Cubeia.com. As I was surfing along the other day it struck me that one of the coolest things about Firebase Community Edition is how incredibly fast you can get going. Do you think the title is a boast? Well, in a manner of speaking it is, you see: we’re using Maven to build, and if you [...]
fungrimNote: this post is cross-posted on Cubeia.com. So what can you expect from the Firebase Community Edition (FCE)? Here’s a basic rundown: It’ll be free and open source under the AGPL license. This means you can use, modify and even redistribute it to your hearts delight. However, you can’t change the copyright, nor the [...]
fungrimNote: this post is cross-posted on Cubeia.com. Yesterday we silently let slip that we’re open sourcing Firebase. It is a major change of direction and we are very excited about the whole thing.So Firebase, which has been under a closed proprietary licens only so far, will now be split into three distinct versions: Firebase [...]
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