Archive for September, 2007


The Server Conundrum

The next big task at Orbus is to get our systems working with what I call “intermediary” servers: enterprise style message queues and things like that. Basically, they idea is that the game can sit and asynchronously pump metrics to the queue without sacrificing performance in the game, and the queue will catch up [...]

MetaGameBot 2

Edit: Jeff’s Game Rankings Bot now actually accepts friend requests. So… I guess if you want to add him as a friend, he’s at jwrankingbot -at - hotmail.com. Happy game hunting!
As Darius mentioned, we both spent part of the last two days writing bots to give us Metacritic scores for games while we’re [...]