The Best Fragging Deal on iPhone and iPod Touch
Some time ago, someone asked me to participate in an exciting project.
Now, more than eighteen months later, I can tell all of you about it.
The project was to create a full featured multiplayer first person shooter for iPhone and iPod touch – and it is now available on the App Store.
If you are interested in my work, you can learn more about my part over here(link dead now). If you just want to get straight to the iPwnage, go download the game now – low price, no gimmicks, no tricks.
UPDATE: Since the link above is now dead, I wanted to detail what I did for this project.
- Built a self-scaling architecture to handle load for millions of players. AWS now provides a lot of this functionality as a part of their offering, but they did not at this time.
- Built a system for tracking ll player scoring and achievements. Apple had not yet released Game Center so we didn’t have that option either.
- Built the match-making system which matched players to other players in the same part of the world and with similar rankings.
- Built all of the in-game menus.
- Designed and implemented all database schema.