I. The Surge in Gaming:

People love playing games. From Japan to the States, the gaming industry has been experiencing a rapid growth. It’s also one of the few industries that benefited massively from the global COVID pandemic. For example, Tencent’s online games revenue increased by more than 65% in just two years while new Animal Crossing sold more digital units than any other Switch game.

For those that haven’t read our previous article, Tashi’s unique architecture allows for the benefits of dedicated game servers, such as low latency and secure communication, while maintaining the cost-effectiveness of peer-to-peer game servers.

We promised you we’d tell you how exactly Tashi helps web3 games scale — so here goes!

In the world of online gaming, there are two main approaches to hosting multiplayer sessions: Dedicated servers and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. Each has its own set of pros and cons, and game developers must carefully consider which approach is best for their particular game.

Distributed systems are becoming increasingly important as the need for scalable and highly available applications grows — especially with the rise of cloud computing. The CAP theorem forces us to choose between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. This is a problem all distributed systems face — databases like MongoDB, caches like Redis, message queues like Kafka, and scheduler like Kubernetes — and Tashi could make all of them better.

Web3 gaming has been rapidly growing over the past few years. Despite an overwhelming and tumultuous year for crypto with the collapse of former industry bulwarks (Three Arrows Capital, Terra/Luna, and FTX to name just a few), web3 gaming stayed afloat and continued to attract interest all across the ecosystem in 2022.

When it comes to online gaming, lag — the result of slow internet speeds or distance from the game server (dedicated or P2P) — is the root of all evil.

Netcode, the underlying technology behind multiplayer gaming, is a crucial aspect of online gaming experiences. It is responsible for the transmission of data between players in real-time, determining the outcome of in-game events, and creating a sense of fairness and reliability.