Technology

To enable multiplayer gaming directly in the browser, Odpy has developed a unique server technology. Odpy has tested the software during two years, safeguarding that the server is:

Architecture

The odpy game sever is built on a basic share-nothing principle, allowing it to support a large amount of concurrent games and players.

Figure 1: Two game servers running two types of games: “Pong” and “Game”. Green dots represent connected users.

The server is optimized for quick round trip times between clients and groups. Communication is routed directly into the group, and not via any central message router. This lets the server run games in parallel, without an impact on response times. Once the user base grows, servers are linearly scalable. This means new servers can simply be added when traffic usage increases.