@neurotic.bsky.social
Staff Developer Advocate for Games at @Discord.com. Founder on Agones and Quilkin OSS projects for multiplayer games. Was at Google Cloud for a long time. Occasional YT & Twitch. he/him.
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After a decade in the games industry, I'm finally on my way to Tokyo Game Show next week for the first time ever ๐ซ๐ผ
Who else will I be seeing there?
What should I know before I go?
Picture of giant mastiff head next to my laptop
This giant head is literally the largest reason I don't contribute more to #opensource software in the evening.
So if you are waiting on a review from me on Agones particularly, just know that I may have lost my lap and access to a laptop to a snoring boerboel.
In our recent @discord.com Developers talk, we were joined by several fantastic product folks to step you through how you remove the development rate limits on the Discord Social SDK.
Check out the recording below ๐๐ป
youtu.be/AlGrtgnCFc4...
Monster Hunter Wilds Supporting 1 million concurrent users
Network architecture
I forgot to post these photos from #devcom a few weeks ago. Just another awesome game server implementation on top of Agones! ๐ฅณ
Definitely seeing a bunch of Karpenter combined with Agones these days ๐ค๐จ
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Social SDK: Going Live with Communications Features
Thursday 12pm US PST I'm hosting two of our product team members on the Discord Developers Server to step through the requirements for removing development rate limits for the Social SDK Communication Features.
Come join and bring your questions! ๐๐ป
discord.gg/discord-d...
I think I'm trapped in Gamescom. Is the game trying to leave? I've left before. I think? Maybe I never left
21.08.2025 14:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's day 214 at Gamescom. You've become fused to a game controller. Your physical presence is in quantum singularity between the Radisson and the Business Cafe inside the convention centre. All you can say now is "Trade pass?" as you pass through turnstiles for eternity.
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Do you need a Discord Duck? Come to my #Devcom talk!
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February!
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Need more YouTube content? Want to see my face more? ๐
Today we launched the @discord.com Developers YouTube channel!
We've got tutorials for your Discord server, case studies with studios using the Social SDK, and 2025 GDC talks ๐๐ป
Session details
Excited to be sitting down with Ashley Cook from Facepunch Studios to discuss how and why Rust implemented Discordโs social infrastructure to bring Discord features to their game at #devcom in a few weeks!
Details: ๐๐ป
bizcommunity.gamesco...
Check out (and pls share) our GIG Guide to Gamescom!
thegig.guide/gamescom
Whether its your first or fifteenth time at the show, we've put together a helpful document to navigate both the event and the city of Cologne.
Featuring tips, tricks, advice, and discounts!
Oh I already compile it from scratch. This is just an improvement.
05.08.2025 02:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I fell over and now I seem to be attempting to build deb packages for Hyprland.
05.08.2025 02:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐๐ป I'll be at #devcom, speaking at "Powering Social Connections: Discordโs Social SDK" (details to come!) and at #gamescom
๐จ DM me if you want to chat about Discord and/or the Social SDK, OSS, backends for multiplayer games, Agones, or we can just share pictures of dogs ๐.
#HugOps to our @github.com friends
It's my fault, I was trying to deploy something tricky today.
What are you doing on Thursday? Are you a Unity developer?
Then come join us for "Building Games with Unity + Social SDK" in our Discord Developer Server with โช@antontesh.bsky.socialโฌ!
See you there! ๐๐ป
discord.com/invite/d...
Alumni Weekend Day 1 on July 12th Schedule. Event runs 8:50am-9pm PDT.
๐ฎ Alumni Weekend is almost here!
Game dev talks, design deep-dives, and career-leveling convosโfor free. ๐ง ๐ฅ
๐ฅ Donโt miss this stacked virtual conference w/ speakers from across our alumni network.
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Powering Player Connections
๐ 12pm PT today (in 2h โฑ๏ธ): @discord.com Social SDK Eng team presents "Powering Player Connections: How Discord's Social SDK Boosts Your Game"!
Learn how the Social SDK integrates your players' friends lists & social graphs, and the benefits you can get!
discord.gg/discord-d...
Alumni logo
I'll be presenting "Introduction to the @discord.com Social SDK" at the @igda.org Foundation - Alumni Weekend - this weekend! ๐ฅณ
It's a free virtual event (although donations appreciated!)
www.igdafoundation.o...
I'll be on at 7pm Pacific โฑ๏ธ, but it runs all day Saturday and Sunday.
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screenshot of types of approvers outlined in embedded link
Putting a call out for more approvers on Agones development
If you've ever wondered what it takes to become an approver, it's actually not that mystical a process! It just takes time and effort ๐๐ป
github.com/googlefor...
DM me if think you are close, or you have questions!
New @discord.com Social SDK Guide just dropped for managing Voice Chat with the SDK! This is a fun one, since you have to setup a lobby first! Check out the guide for details ๐
We promised this to be published "after GDC" - which is still technically true ๐
discord.com/develope...
I might just save this photo somewhere safe.
Photo credit: @kaslin.rocks
I'm sorry, but how did I miss this video from 2024 talking about how PUBG RUNS ON AGONES????
๐คฏ WHAT ๐คฏ
youtu.be/GhYUjTxSOkE...
Hey Krafton, wanna drop your logo on the front page of agones.dev/site/ please? ๐
Presentation title page: Introducing the Discord Social SDK
๐I'll be giving an online talk, doing a technical introduction of the @discord.com Social SDK at 12pm US Pacific, Tuesday 24th of June!
๐ค๐ปHopefully this time, the whole internet won't fall over, and we won't have to postpone!
๐ฝ Sign up
discord.gg/WcE3bfU3?...
I'm sorry.
12.06.2025 20:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I get up at 5am to give a presentation and the whole internet is broken.
I feel like this is my fault somehow?
... And I think I found a bug with @fedica.com . Oops, what happened with that image? ๐คฆ๐ปโบ๏ธ
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