{"author_link":"\/users\/midblue","author_name":"midblue","author_uid":"midblue","comments":[],"epoch":1649289317,"event":"LD50","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":291287,"likes":12,"metadata":{"p_key":"165377","p_author":"midblue","p_authorkey":"1224670","p_urlkey":"391083","p_title":"It's not expensive to host an online game!","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD50","p_time":"1649289317","p_likes":"12","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1224670","us_name":"LDJam user 224670","us_username":"224670","event_start":"1648857600","event_key":"110","event_name":"Ludum Dare 50"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD50","removed_author":false},"_superparent":276397,"_trust":1,"author":224670,"body":"Our game, [Different Strokes](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/different-strokes) is a huge, sprawling labyrinth of user-generated content.\n\nSeveral versions of images for each and every painting submitted by users must be uploaded to a cloud server, and loaded in when the game is played.\n\n![Apr-04-2022 2-46-07 PM-h.gif](\/\/\/raw\/e9d\/63\/z\/4d3f7.gif)\n\nIt must cost a fortune to host all those images and send _hundreds_ of them to every client on every play session, right?\n\n![Screen Shot 2022-04-06 at 6.48.15 PM.png](\/\/\/raw\/e9d\/63\/z\/4d3ec.png)\n\nNah.\n\nThe storage and cloud functions are both handled through Google Cloud, which has [some pretty generous free tiers](https:\/\/firebase.google.com\/pricing\/?authuser=0&hl=en). I'm looking forward to hosting this game for as long as possible, and with costs like these, I'm not worried about the future.\n\nFeel free to [check out our game](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/different-strokes) if you're curious what can be done in a weekend with some basic cloud tech.\n\nCheers!","comments":3,"comments-timestamp":"2022-08-10T20:22:17Z","created":"2022-04-06T23:48:27Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":291287,"love":12,"love-timestamp":"2022-04-07T08:12:26Z","meta":[],"modified":"2022-08-10T20:22:17Z","name":"It's not expensive to host an online game!","node-timestamp":"2022-04-06T23:55:17Z","parent":283266,"parents":[1,5,9,276397,283266],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/different-strokes\/its-not-expensive-to-host-an-online-game","published":"2022-04-06T23:55:17Z","scope":"public","slug":"its-not-expensive-to-host-an-online-game","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":902849},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"291287","n_urlkey":"391083","n_parent":"283266","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/different-strokes\/its-not-expensive-to-host-an-online-game","n_slug":"its-not-expensive-to-host-an-onl","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"224670","n_created":"1649288907","n_modified":"1660162937","n_version":"902849","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/different-strokes\/its-not-expensive-to-host-an-online-game","text":"Our game, [Different Strokes](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/different-strokes) is a huge, sprawling labyrinth of user-generated content.\n\nSeveral versions of images for each and every painting submitted by users must be uploaded to a cloud server, and loaded in when the game is played.\n\n![Apr-04-2022 2-46-07 PM-h.gif](\/\/\/raw\/e9d\/63\/z\/4d3f7.gif)\n\nIt must cost a fortune to host all those images and send _hundreds_ of them to every client on every play session, right?\n\n![Screen Shot 2022-04-06 at 6.48.15 PM.png](\/\/\/raw\/e9d\/63\/z\/4d3ec.png)\n\nNah.\n\nThe storage and cloud functions are both handled through Google Cloud, which has [some pretty generous free tiers](https:\/\/firebase.google.com\/pricing\/?authuser=0&hl=en). I'm looking forward to hosting this game for as long as possible, and with costs like these, I'm not worried about the future.\n\nFeel free to [check out our game](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/different-strokes) if you're curious what can be done in a weekend with some basic cloud tech.\n\nCheers!","title":"It's not expensive to host an online game!","wayback_source":[]}