Game client performance issue

Transform a Mobile Game from Java to C++ is more than a month of work for 5 peoples.
Poxnora is a decade old game. Do the math.

 

They would be better off scrapping the whole code and just starting from scratch.

 

Probably worth it.

 

You would need 50+ programmers working for 2 years to upgrade Pox to non-java.

I don't know if it could be made into a hybrid tho, or if in Java you can put "temporal loaded data" into a different foulder so it can be removed when entering the Lobby for example.

 

lol no

 

Is it?, well, it's a titanic task nevertheless

 

it's not really titanic.

2 devs, 3 months. probably less.

 

7 devs, only 2 of which are active programmers. It'd stop development for quite a bit longer than 3 months.

 

it's just a rewrite why would it take more than 3 months?

 

It's base code. Base code is like the foundation of a building. If I want to completely change the foundation. I have to remove whats on top first. It's what the rest of the game uses to function properly. If they changed it, they'd not only have to alter the base code, but look at every line of code after that to make sure it and everything else is in place to prevent a needle in a haystack situation from appearing in the future causing further problems.

I use a lot of idioms to make my point here because I know very little about coding. What I do know is that changing base code of an already well established entity is a big if not huge endeavor.

 

"It's just rewrite" xD

 

Actually it wouldn't be as bad as you think. Rewriting to other language is quite easy, if you know what to do. Of course you'd have to start from scratch, it's not like a project of this size could be auto translated even partially.

I could probably rewrite the whole game in 6 months, even without the source code. It's just that such a big database would take alot of time to complete. And when you add integrity with web site and other similar stuff, yeah, it'd probably take more than 6 months tbh.

PS. Solving some small problems this game engine has doesn't need a rewrite. A better and faster way is of course finding the cause for these problems and find a solution for it.

 

I am not a Java programmer or such, so, if I miss the mark really far, forgive me, but for the sake of Brainstorming, here it goes:

What if you Dogs splitted the matches from the client, and made the matches as independent start-close processes? If this is viable, it wouldn't take much more programming power since it would be just a "launcher" kind of solution, right?

 

As does any other kind of programming which doesn't involve copy and pasta :/

 

That's not how software works. A fundamental part in software design is in making sure that each part is independent of each other thus modular i.e. you can rewrite the server software without altering the client software at all.

So a more apt analogy would be changing an engine in a car. You pull it out and put another one back it and everything else should just work. The foundation analogy works if you wrote spaghetti code.

 

Don't act conceited when you clearly have no experience with programming and software engineering.

 

As I said, I don't know much about code. Perhaps I meant game engine instead of base code? I don't know. I learn something new every day.

Four different development teams, three different companies, two turtle doves, and multiple different programmers, on a 9 year service record. With they way the dev team talks about it, Spaghetti code may be the appropriate term.