05-06, 15:45–16:35 (EST5EDT), Large Room
The age-old wisdom for adding multiplayer to a complex single player game is: Don't.
This talk will cover how we added mixed local and online multiplayer to an existing codebase of tens of thousands of lines of GDScript and how you can think about systems in your game to do the same.
Dome Keeper, by Bippinbits: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/
KAR Games: https://kar.games/
Target Audience –Mid to Senior Technical, though the concepts are applicable for all
Chris is the founder of KAR Games, working on the early access title Drift: Space Survival and the multiplayer update for Dome Keeper. Before getting into games, Chris spent a decade in the startup world as a serial founder and CTO. His three kids are likely to be seen climbing on him during Discord calls.