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Announcements / Re: I'm sorry
« on: May 13, 2014, 05:13:19 PM »
Hello,
My name is Chris Brooks and I am a director of application development with over 25 years of experience building complex systems across all tiers and platforms. I also used to play SW and had quite a few discussions with Randy about rewriting the application. I was trying to get him to move to vb.net way back in 2002. That said I would like to throw in my thoughts on a redesign...
Database would be SQL Server 2012.
Middle tier would be made up primarily of very lightweight REST based web service(s). All communication, game state management and authentication would go through this tier.
Front-End clients would be lightweight and varied. They would be updated with game assets as needed and would provide the rich UX for the player.
By moving to a web service architecture we do not need to completely rewrite the system for every platform. This frees us up to reuse code no matter whether people are playing on a PC/MAC, Android, IOS, Windows store app, HTML 5/AJAX/JQuery based web site etc. etc.
Just some thoughts for what it is worth
My name is Chris Brooks and I am a director of application development with over 25 years of experience building complex systems across all tiers and platforms. I also used to play SW and had quite a few discussions with Randy about rewriting the application. I was trying to get him to move to vb.net way back in 2002. That said I would like to throw in my thoughts on a redesign...
Database would be SQL Server 2012.
Middle tier would be made up primarily of very lightweight REST based web service(s). All communication, game state management and authentication would go through this tier.
Front-End clients would be lightweight and varied. They would be updated with game assets as needed and would provide the rich UX for the player.
By moving to a web service architecture we do not need to completely rewrite the system for every platform. This frees us up to reuse code no matter whether people are playing on a PC/MAC, Android, IOS, Windows store app, HTML 5/AJAX/JQuery based web site etc. etc.
Just some thoughts for what it is worth