May 24, 2019

Creating and selling multiplayer online games (Changelog Interviews #347)

1 hour 18 minutes

We’re talking with Victor Zhou about the explosion of the .io game genre. We talked through all the details around building and running one of these games, the details behind Victor’s super popular game called Generals — which he eventually sold, and we also covered the economics behind creating and selling one of these games.

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Featuring:

Victor Zhou – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

When Agar.io came out in 2015, it inspired a new .io game genre that has since exploded in popularity. I experienced the rise of .io games firsthand: I’ve built and sold 2 .io games in the past 3 years.

How to build a multiplayer (.io) web game - part 1

How to build a multiplayer (.io) web game - part 2

Generals

How I Became a Programmer - My unlikely origin story

iogames.space

agar.io

slither.io

diep.io

“kingz.io” was discussed but no longer has a web presence

Socket.io plays a crucial role in .io games

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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