In early November 2020 we have launched a new cloud service called Overcast which joins the family of SmartFoxServer products.
In this short series of articles we will be taking a look at how Overcast works, how to get started and and how it can help new or existing projects based on SmartFoxServer.
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In early November 2020 we have launched a new cloud service called Overcast which joins the family of SmartFoxServer products.
In this short series of articles we will be taking a look at how Overcast works, how to get started and and how it can help new or existing projects based on SmartFoxServer.
Continue readingAs announced a few years ago, Adobe has been working on the gradual retirement of the Flash technology from the web in favor of open standards such as HTML5, WebGL etc.
Officially December 31st. 2020 will be the last day for the Flash platform, after which it will be removed from the Adobe website. This means it won’t be available for download any more, nor there will be any form of support or updates from Adobe.
How does this impact SmartFoxServer and its users? Let’s find out.
Continue readingWith the release of SmartFoxServer 2X v2.16 and the final HTML5 version of its Administration Tool, we decided to introduce a long-awaited feature: support for custom administration modules.
In this article we will provide a brief introduction on the subject and a walkthrough of the development and integration workflow of the modules.
Continue readingWebsocket has become very popular thanks to the ubiquity of HTML5 technologies on desktop, mobile and even consoles. Additionally game engines such as Unity, with its WebGL build, has pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved in web-based games allowing many developers to release their titles for the browser.
In this new article we’re going to review a series of steps to set up Websocket in SmartFoxServer 2X and avoid potential pitfalls, especially when testing locally.
Continue readingSmartFoxServer 2.15.0 provides several improvements for scaling the UDP protocol to uber-high packet rates, which can be useful for real-time games with massive traffic that use very fast updates (e.g. 30 or 50 packet/s).
Continue readingWith the progressive retirement of the Flash platform we started researching how to port our SmartFoxServer 2X Admin Tool to the HTML5 environment. This has led to a significant investment of time as many of the frameworks and tools available for Flash development did not have an equivalent in the browser world. Another major time sink was rethinking a significant portion of our workflow and finding good replacements for visual components that would render correctly on devices of all sizes.
With the launch of SmartFoxServer 2X 2.14 we’re happy to announce the beta phase of the new HTML 5 AdminTool, which will replace the existing Flash-based one during 2020. Continue reading
The launch of SmartFoxServer 2.14 is particularly significant for all the web-related services, in particular Websockets and BlueBox. This was an area where we were still looking for performance improvements but we were mostly dependent on the underlying dependency used for this service, namely Jetty.
With the recent release of macOS Catalina (10.15) Apple has removed the support for legacy 32-bit applications which in turn has made several software inaccessible on the new OS.
If you’re planning on using SmartFoxServer 2X under macOS Catalina there are a couple of things that you need to know to ensure smooth sailing.
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In today’s article we’re going to discuss how to detect a server shut down, be it intentional or unexpected, and what tools can we use to exit cleanly without loosing precious data.