#52: EVE Online: MMO game powered by Python

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Have you ever played a massively multiplayer online game? My first experience with these types of games with text-based role playing games called MUDs back in the early 90's. Well, things have come a long way since then. Game such as Eve Online have hundreds of thousands of players exploring, trading, and battling within a universe of over 7,000 star systems. Gameplay in Eve Online consists of beautiful 3D space flight within a dynamic universe and many real world players.

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0:00.0	Have you ever played a massively multiplayer online game?
0:02.9	My first experience with these types of games was with text-based role-playing games called
0:07.1	muds back in the early 90s.
0:09.7	Well, things have come a long way since then.
0:11.8	Games such as Eve Online have hundreds of thousands of players exploring, trading, and
0:16.0	battling within a universe of over 7,000 star systems.
0:19.9	Game playing Eve Online consists of beautiful 3D spaceflight
0:22.9	within a dynamic universe with many real-world players. You may have played even online as it's one of
0:28.2	the first major MMOs released back in 2003. But did you know that Python is at the core of the game,
0:34.2	playing a critical role in the backend infrastructure as well as a major role
0:38.1	in the client-side game itself? On this episode, you'll meet Christian Sigabirkson from
0:42.5	CCP Games to dig into Python at Eve Online. This is Talk Python to Me, episode number 52,
0:48.4	recorded March 16th, 2016.
0:52.0	Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, In many senses of the word, because I'm first developers, developers, developer in many senses of the word, because I make these
0:58.4	applications, but I also use these verbs to make this music.
1:02.2	I constructed line by line, just like when I'm coding another software design.
1:06.8	In both cases, it's about design patterns.
1:09.9	Anyone can get the job done.
1:11.3	It's the execution that matters.
1:13.0	I have many interests.
1:14.2	Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.
1:22.0	This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
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