Had some spare time today and decided to start working on the back-end of our forthcoming flash game. It all began by installing SmartFoxServer on our Ubuntu Linux server. SmartFoxServer should dramatically decrease the initial effort of server-side development. So far it looks promising.
The installation itself was a breeze. Just under a minute and couple of commands and presto, we were on the roll! Haven’t actually gotten any client code working yet. There’s also some more configuring to do (yup, already changed the default username and password, in case you’re wondering:) We start by using the free LITE version and probably we will upgrade to BASIC or PRO after some evaluation.
We already had an existing version control system, namely Subversion. SVN has many benefits, it’s cost (0€, $0, £0) being one of the most important ones. And honestly, I think Subversion beats many of the pricy commercial products, at least in reliability and flexibility. The repository will be used to store our code (all of the code, both flash- and XNA-specific), as well as our art assets. This usually requires some effort from the art department to learn new practices, since version control systems are traditionally only used by software developers.
“Wind it up!”
Jani.
Tags: development, flash, server, smartfoxserver, Subversion, SVN, XNA
