ROroberthbailey·Mar 31, 2022
It's called Quilkin: https://github.com/googleforgames/quilkin
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Quilkin is a non-transparent UDP proxy specifically designed for use with large scale multiplayer dedicated game server deployments, to ensure security, access control, telemetry data, metrics and more.
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What it is
Quilkin is a non-transparent UDP proxy specifically designed for use with large scale multiplayer dedicated game server deployments, to ensure security, access control, telemetry data, metrics and more.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesIt sounds very much like your stated goals ("...battle the network and latency, find ways to prevent cheating, and figure out how to make a scalable backend architecture") are very much in alignment with Agones (https://agones.dev) and it's sub-projects Quilkin (https://github.com/googleforgames/quilkin), Open-Match (https://open-match.dev/site/), and Open-Saves (https://github.com/googleforgames/open-saves).
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