Mark Mandel 🕹️ GDC

For Ubisoft, delivering seamless multiplayer experiences to a global player base is an infrastructure challenge of massive scale. It requires managing thousands of game servers with a global footprint and absolute resilience. Join us to see how Ubisoft solves this by leveraging Agones, the open-source game server scaling engine on Kubernetes. We will dive into the real-world use case and production data behind Ubisoft's fleets, demonstrating why they bet on cloud-native tech. Along the way, we’ll trace Agones' evolution from its origins at Google to its current home in the CNCF—showing how a community-driven standard is now powering the biggest names in the industry.

With Agones moving to @cncf.io, I'm excited to be keynoting Kubecon EU with Jean-François Hubert, Development Director at Ubisoft (albeit for 3 minutes, But it'll be fun I promise! 😆)

We're doing a runthrough of how Ubisoft orchestrates multiplayer games with Agones!

https://sched.co/2HgQn

I need a t-shirt that says: "Warning: Will ask for an agenda for a meeting".

Looking forward to seeing many of you at GDC! Drop me a line if you want to catch up, I'll be around!

Doing all the good things, Discord stuff, Agones stuff, open source things, booth talks, GDC talks, lots of fun things.

Also here's everything we're doing at Discord 👇🏻

events.discord.com/g...

Ever send a Discord invite and then have to remember to assign roles when they join? What if you could embed the roles directly ✨ in the invite itself? ✨

You can now do that with Community Invites! Come learn how next Tuesday with Anthony Tešija and I 👇🏻

discord.com/invite/d...

ahahahahahaha..... _wipes tear from eye_

Quickshell is great for bashing out quick UI tooling you wish you had for your desktop shell. Building a window overview was disturbingly easy to do.

github.com/markmande...

My old stuff IS still there. My blog died a long time around though.

Myself and a few others write this up every year - hope you find it useful, and see you at GDC!

By emotional support I mean she's standing on whatever I need most.

Juniper standing on desk frame

The emotional support I get from this dog while constructing new furniture...

Need more boxes

That's the floor 😆

All the games on the shelf!

Omg. I did it.

If those Kickstarters and preorders go through though, I'm in trouble.

More games

Not enough space for the games.

All on one shelf might have been optimistic.

Anyone got a spare TARDIS?

Don't need the trying travel bit, just the inside being bigger than the outside bit.

Some games on a shelf. There is still space

More games on the shelves. It's getting messy and there is less space.

I think this is progress? Or something? It started so neat. Why do we have so many?

Check out agones.dev/site/docs... - you'll notice way more content about Agones from people that use it!

Get case studies & tutorials from the likes of Krafton, @playstation.com, Nintendo, @awscloud.bsky.social, Google Cloud & more.

As a challenge -- can you find something I missed? 😆

I may have bought myself a new Secretlab desk as a forcing function to rearrange and clean out my study.

🎉 Big news over the weekend for Agones!

The application for Agones to join @cncf.io at the Sandbox level is now live!
Now we wait for the CNCF TOC to review and (hopefully 🤞🏻) approve!

🙏🏻 Huge thanks to literally everyone who ever contributed to this project!

Bought new Nest Wifi pro because the WiFi in the house was being weird and spotty for multiple days.

WiFi is now back to normal, because of course it is.

I think this is the answer

I think you mean "person in Devrelll" ☺️

Is it "Devreller" or "Devreler" ? 🤔

Sometimes I wonder if my career in developer relations, is just me preemptively failing at being an improv comic 😆

Getting started with webhooks

Wed 11am US Pacific, I'll be joined by my wonderful teammate Jameka March to talk about about Discord Webhooks! 🕸️🪝

Ever wonder how you get information to your backend about what's happening in Discord (or the Social SDK?) come on down and listen in!

discord.gg/discord-d...

Proposal: Migrate Agones to the Linux Foundation · Issue #4304 · googleforgames/agones Note: When I write “Linux Foundation” or “LF”, I mean either the Linux Foundation itself, or any of its sub-foundations such as CNCF, O3DE, etc. It’s just easier to type “Linux Foundation”. Also se...

📣 Calling all Agones users & contributors!

I've proposed moving Agones to the @linuxfoundation.org to gain more collaborators, a formal TSC, and better communication with Google over our test/build infra, addressing recent frustrations. Please comment on the GitHub issue!

If you are friendly, would like to meet new people, and want to join us in building a community like no other, come find your friends at The Game Club.

Beta now open, use the limited time promo code: HEYLOOKLISTEN for 50% off your subscription!

www.thegameclub.com

After a decade in the games industry, I'm finally on my way to Tokyo Game Show next week for the first time ever 🛫🗼

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 👇🏻
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! 🥳

Definitely seeing a bunch of Karpenter combined with Agones these days 🤔🔨