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minus-squareMentalEdgelinkfedilinkEnglish12•edit-21 month ago“Oh no, we don’t need to worry about any sanity checks in the database, that’s all taken care of in the javascript frontend” I didn’t come up with that, but it’s the same logic. Actually expressing something like it in a professional setting could get you fired. Not in the games industry, though.
minus-square@MaaluslinkEnglish9•1 month agoBecause there is a reason nobody does that serverside. Programming games and programming a service are two different beasts.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoMost other industries don’t expect millisecond response times. You take longer than that in an action FPS game, your game is fundamentally broken and unplayable.
“Oh no, we don’t need to worry about any sanity checks in the database, that’s all taken care of in the javascript frontend”
I didn’t come up with that, but it’s the same logic. Actually expressing something like it in a professional setting could get you fired.
Not in the games industry, though.
Because there is a reason nobody does that serverside. Programming games and programming a service are two different beasts.
Most other industries don’t expect millisecond response times.
You take longer than that in an action FPS game, your game is fundamentally broken and unplayable.