Playkey DevLog. Issue 40
As you’ll remember from the last issue, we were going to add more games to our decentralized servers. Well, we have, and now there are four of them: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, PUBG, GTA V, and The Witcher. To scale that up, we need to come up with a tool for automatically creating new disk images and deploying games. We’ll be looking into it as part of expanding our miner network. For the time being, new games are being added manually.
We’re also wrapping up work on automatic game updates on miners’ computers. For now, that only covers Steam updates. The functionality is all ready, and we’re rolling it out on real servers. Once we’re finished, we’ll take care of other launchers as well.
Another piece of news is that we’re putting a final touch on miner accounts. The Session section, discussed here, is up and running already. The Profile section is what we’ll be tackling next, to figure out how to link cryptocurrency wallets to it. You can save a wallet in our database so that in due course we can send you your fees in PKT.
The server team is still busy working on the autoselection algorithm, verifying how accurate its predictions are. We need to make sure that the system offers users servers that are best fit to respond. For that purpose, we’re testing a new technique based on merging neighboring cities into zones. When a user starts a session, we determine their location and direct them to the related zone. So far, we’ve had some promising results: users are reporting lower ping.
On a final note, let’s take a peep at what we’ve done to date. In the third quarter, we dashed ahead of our plans and accomplished what had been slated for the end of the year. That included improving the decentralized system’s alpha version, launching miner accounts, and integrating players and miners into a single (beta) ecosystem. Some 3Q objectives were relegated to the back seat, and we’ll be addressing them in a little while. Changes to that effect are now all on the road map on playkey.io.
Till next time!
