From now on I will be posting on https://snorristurluson.github.io/ Most of my postings have code snippets in them and I've been using markdown, checking into a GitHub repo, then copying and pasting the contents. Using a static site generated with Jekyll just seems easier. Thanks, Blogger - I have moved on...
I want to describe my first iteration of exsim , the core server for the large scale simulation I described in my last blog post . A Listener module opens a socket for listening to incoming connections. Once a connection is made, a process is spawned for handling the login and the listener continues listening for new connections. Once logged in, a Player is created, and a Solarsystem is started (if it hasn't already). The solar system also starts a PhysicsProxy , and the player starts a Ship . These are all GenServer processes. The source for this is up on GitHub: https://github.com/snorristurluson/exsim Player The player takes ownership of the TCP connection and handles communication with the game client (or bot). Incoming messages are parsed in handle_info/2 and handled by the player or routed to the ship, as appropriate. The player creates the ship in its init/1 function. The sta...