Amazon GameLift VS JOGL

You think Amazon servers aren't industry standard? https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/. Source: 11 months ago

There are a ton of technology solutions sold by other companies these days that - with the appropriate funding - can accelerate the timeline of damn near any project, multiplayer online games included. With a bit of expertise and a big enough credit limit, damn near anything's possible. Source: about 1 year ago

Before you get too far into things, give the documentation on GameLift a read: https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/ I’ve never used it myself but it’s an AWS service that handles a lot of the “this is annoying” of deploying game servers on the AWS cloud. It can be used as a complete solution or as modules, and some of those modules might ease your development time. Source: over 1 year ago

On PC, less than 5% of my matches are P2P connections. Google Cloud Game Servers can handle high amount of traffic; it is Google for God's sake! Google & Amazon host a lot of games. The only logical reason that would make the game switch to a player-hosted match should be because you & your opponent are closer to each other than the nearest server, but that's not always the case from the matches I see on PC. I am... Source: almost 2 years ago

Amazon GameLift now offers a new console experience that provides a more intuitive way to manage and scale your game servers on AWS. The redesigned console has new left-hand navigation that makes it easy to switch between various GameLift features such as managing and creating builds, scripts, fleets, FlexMatch, and includes helpful resource links like “Prepare to launch”, and service quotas. The new interface... - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

Many years ago in grad school, I did matrix multiplication for a physics simulation, directly on the GPU, using JOGL. There may be more modern ways to do it, though. Source: over 1 year ago

I tried learning the classic Java version and had modest success. But as soon as I needed to pass large arrays to the shader I got lost in the complexity. I know it requires some kind of interaction with PGL on a PGraphicsOpenGL which "includes a full GLES 2.0 interface" and is documented elsewhere... But you practically need a teacher just to navigate your way through it all. Source: over 2 years ago