abemassry.comWhat abemassry read about this weekabemassry.com/post/2025/06/01abemassry.com/post/2025/06/01# Learning Art A large part of gamedev is art, much more than I realized initially. At first I thought it was a lot of programming, being a programmer I started gamedev from a programming point of view. Little did I realize that half of the amount of time I was doing gamedev I was going to be working on art and the other half was programming (there's also a third half for music, but we'll get into that later). Out of the three my weakest area was art and most games are very art heavy so I looked into learning pixel art which seemed like the natural progression for the next games I'd be working on and there was a quote from a pixel art book that read something like this: > In order to learn pixel art you must first learn art. This book cannot teach you art. So I researched "how to learn art" and it pointed to "learn how to draw." So I started researching how do I learn how to draw and I found a couple of books. After spending a few hours on each book the best one emerged out of the bunch and I decided to complete it because it seemed to have the best learning curve. Easy to get started, step by step instructions, and the only requirements were the ability to draw stick figures, perfect. The book mentioned multiple tools and pencils and if pencil drawing was my endgame I definitely would have taken the advice, but before investing in any of those I wanted to see if the ability to draw could even be acquired by someone like me, who possessed no natural drawing ability, so to speak. So I started with a simple number 2 pencil that was lying around the house, and an old sketchpad that my daughter was no longer using. This was an example of my natural drawing ability if I was concentrating super hard and using a straight edge for some of the lines while reading a different book about animation:  The book is called [Drawing for the Absolute Beginner](https://bookshop.org/a/114194/9781581807899) and I highly, highly recommend it. I also recommend the paperback copy. This book took me from not being able to draw at all, to being confident enough to start sharing my drawings with others to being able to design logos, characters, and to replicate images that I see in nature, on a piece of paper with a pencil. Here are some examples of drawings that the book taught me: ### First lesson:  ### Mid lesson:  ### Creature drawings: ##### Cat:  ##### Cow:  ##### Swan:  ##### Wolf:  ### Later lesson:  ### Final Lesson:  After using this book I started looking into what art style I wanted for the next game and I decided on [Kawaii](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii) characters. So I started working on this book [How to Draw Cute Kawaii in Simple Steps](https://bookshop.org/a/114194/9781782219460). Now you might look at some of the drawings and want to start out with this book, but remember I couldn't draw at all. I highly highly recommend starting out with [Drawing for the Absolute Beginner]()https://bookshop.org/a/114194/9781581807899 and then going the next book, I would not have been able to start drawing if I had done it a different way. ### The first Kawaii drawing:  After that you can specialize in whichever type of art you'd like. I went for pixel art and now I have the confidence and ability to re-read the first pixel art book. The next post will be documenting learning pixel art. Most of what I draw is digital now, while I continue to hone my pencil and paper drawing skills. Every so often I'll feel the need to draw something physically because I'm afraid my skills will disappear because I spent so many years without the ability to draw. But it's the same as many sayings, "practice makes perfect," "if you don't use it you lose it," etc. abemassry.com/post/2024/09/02abemassry.com/post/2024/09/02# The Beginning The beginning of my gamedev journey started with an idea. When I was a kid I had this idea of a 3d rendered rain drop falling from the sky. Absorbing other rain drops, splitting, dispersing, and coming back together as it fell through the blue sky. Eventually it hit the ground, landed in a puddle, and the puddle was run over by a car. It was a car commercial. My big idea was a car commercial. Now what does this have to do with gamedev you might ask? Absolutely nothing. But I thought it would be cool to make a videogame. A year earlier my daughter wanted to make a videogame with me, I had recently found out about the [PICO-8](https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php) game engine and thought it would be the perfect opportunity for both of us to learn game development. She was enthusiastic about drawing the characters and the game map, and creating the sound and music. I was familiar with programming but as a web developer, we weren't sure if we would succeed but we tried anyway. Several months later we finished the game. She decided to move on to other interests but now that we had created one game all of a sudden I had so many other ideas for games. The car commercial idea I had in mind I thought might make a good first game, so I decided to start developing it. I have always liked the [shump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_%27em_up) genre of videogames and I really liked the game [Osmos](https://www.osmos-game.com/) which after beating I still wanted more. What about some type of mashup, but rendered and developed for a retro fantasy console? At the same time the pandemic hit and we were in lock down. Isolated from family and friends, I decided to take our hangout sessions online. My friends and I had always thought it would be cool to make a videogame, we liked playing them. Maybe this was the impetus to get started. So I would share my screen on [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/abemassry) and they would tune in, sometimes joining through chat and sometimes through voice and I would live code and draw the game and they would give me real time feedback. This was also essential as we composed the music. It was truly a collaborative game development effort. Other people would drop in on Twitch and also give us feedback. We'd go on all sorts of tangents. Six months later we had a finished game [Rain Drop](https://abemassry.itch.io/rain-drop) for the [PICO-8](https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php). With 90% of the development effort done live online. It was a lot of fun working with a tight knit team and also having a bunch of outside collaborators on [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/abemassry). If you get a chance to check out the [credits](https://github.com/abemassry/rain-drop?tab=readme-ov-file#credits) you can see everyone who had a hand in this game. The album: In addition to the game we also dropped an [album](https://abemassry.bandcamp.com/album/rain-drop-original-video-game-soundtrack) a little while afterwards featuring the soundtrack of the game. Our first sale. A couple of months after launch we made our first sale, this was released on [itch.io](https://itch.io/) and we weren't even expecting the general public to play the game much less buy it. We made one sale so far, but a sale is a sale. We were now officially game developers. We couldn't just stop at one game, now that we had all these ideas and the ability to bring those ideas to life. You'll have to wait for the next post to find out what happens next.  Play Rain Drop on [Mobile](https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid@898) and [PC](https://abemassry.itch.io/rain-drop) abemassry.com/post/2024/08/01abemassry.com/post/2024/08/01# First Post Here’s the first post of my game dev blog. I decided to go the lowest effort route and turn my normal blog into my game dev blog. Or more like this space is my blog and right now it’s chronicling my journey through game dev. Maybe in the future it will become something different. Blogging has always been a challenge for me, the primary reason is I don’t feel like I have anything interesting to say. As soon as I do have something interesting to say, I say it, I don’t use that many words to say it, and then I’m done. I’m sure some of you reading this have felt the same way. In fact I’ve talked to others that said this very sentence before I could. So now that I have a new thing I’m working on, I have something to write about and I get to share it with you. Follow my [RSS feed](https://abemassry.com/rss) for updates. abemassry.com/post/2023/01/09abemassry.com/post/2023/01/09# How to Review Pull Requests, Effectively, While Still Being a Nice Person This guide will attempt to show you how to effectively review Pull Requests (PRs) while still being a nice person. This guide is aimed at junior developers that have just gotten a task of reviewing a PR for the first time. More senior developers can also refer to this guide as a refresher; and I will be referring to this guide in the future when I need a refresher. This guide is centered around Git but is applicable to other version control systems like Mercurial. However I’ll be specifically talking about the web interface of GitHub. ## Step 1: Take a look at the title. Sometimes the title says everything you need, something like “Move the navbar up 1px.” With a title like that you hardly even need a description. But most of the time the title will give you an idea of what the PR is about and we’ll need to read the description as well. So we’ll move on to the next step. ## Step 2: Read the description. The description should give you all the information you need to determine what the goal of the PR is. If it’s not clear what this change is or why it’s needed, reach out to the author of the PR in a direct message in another channel. They’ll be much more receptive and would probably really like the chance to tell you about it. If they give you enough information where you understand it, add a comment that clarifies it for anyone else reading. Start it with “spoke offline and …”. The last option should be to leave a comment asking this. The reason is, it’s a public comment and it might be taken the wrong way. ### Step 2a: Read the comments as well. The questions that you have may have been answered already. ## Step 3: Read the Code In order to find out what the code does after you find out what the code is attempting to do you have to determine if the code actually does this. This is the first part of reading the code. The second part of reading the code is to find out where the changes are specifically when you go to test the code. Now at this point if there is something in the code that you don’t understand how it works it’s perfectly fine to write a comment saying something like: “I don’t understand how this works” or “How does this section work?” You can also highlight and use markdown for specific parts. If there are large sections of the code that need explanation then you should probably pair with the author to explain the pieces, if you’re able, or even better screenshare. This can also be done after running the code.  ## Step 4: Run the code To really evaluate the code you’ll need to pull the code down and run it. The GitHub CLI makes this easy and there are other [tools](https://github.com/abemassry/git-cpr) to make it easy to pull down someone’s branch. Hopefully you and the team have a development environment set up that makes this easy. If not, that's an area of improvement. In order to truly evaluate the PR and not just give it a rubber stamp (merge without looking) the code needs to be fully read, run, and evaluated. Since you’ve read the code and the title and description it should make sense where to look when running the code to see what the behavior is. If it fixes something make sure it’s broken first, then pull the code down and make sure the code fixes the broken thing. If there is an addition make sure it does what the description, code, and title says it’s supposed to do. If there’s a change or non behavioral refactor, check where the changes might be. ### Step 4a: If you find a problem When running the code you might find an issue, the most helpful thing you can do is figure out where the problem is, by doing a little debugging you might be able to help find out where the problem is. Very often it’s something small that has an exact location in the PR where the problem occurs, after debugging the problem you might be able to find a fix. If you do find a fix, suggest a change inline in the GitHub web interface. This makes it super easy for the author because they only have to click 2 buttons to accept your change. You can also provide them with how you ran the code, what you saw, and how you changed it. #### Suggest Changes Button .png) #### Suggesting Changes  #### Suggested Changes  #### The author committing the suggestion  If you can’t determine where in the code the problem is occurring, let them know and provide full details on how they can reproduce what you found. After leaving all of the info you might want to reach out to them with a direct message in case they want to pair with you so they can see the issue happening in real time. ## Step 5: Re-read the code You read the code the first time, you checked everything before, title, description, etc. you’ve very familiar with this PR. You’ve even run the code and it works, might as well say “looks good to me” (LGTM) and hit the merge button (don’t do this). This would be wrong to do at this point and you’d miss out on a thorough evaluation of the code and a learning opportunity for yourself. Now that you’re familiar with the code and you’ve run the code and know what it does, take a second detailed look at it. Figure out which pieces do what. While you’re reading it at this point several items might appear that pop out at you now, that you might not have seen before. Things that might not be a problem now might become a problem in the future. Global variables, scoping issues, confusing naming issues, off by one errors, implicit variable declaration (if that’s a problem for your codebase), incorrect type casting (ints vs floats), freeing resources (memory, objects, sockets, etc.), incorrect bracing around if statements that works now but is a problem waiting to happen (or works only on the [happy path](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_path)), regex that misses some edge case, using after freeing, etc. If everything looks good then do a quick summary of everything you’ve tried and run and evaluated and state it should do what the PR says. Write this in the review. You’re safe to approve and/or merge the code and deploy it if you have the power. If the codebase supports unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests those should be included as well and they should be run as well. If there’s an automated way that they run, that’s good too, but for a code review, don’t rely on them. Pretend they don’t exist if you have to, that way you can truly evaluate the code because at the end of the day, the customers or end-users or game players, or people other than the team will be using the real code that you helped evaluate and/or write. With all this negativity it’s also important to look at the positive aspects. What did the author write that was innovative? How did they solve this specific problem? What takeaways can you see and remember for yourself for the future? This is another learning opportunity, one of many, on your development journey. ## Note on direct messaging (DM) Use whatever format the team is comfortable with (email, Slack, Discord, etc), if in doubt DM first and discuss what you or the author will be posting on the GitHub web interface, remember the GitHub web interface is public and emails are sent out for public activity, so even though you can edit something that’s posted there the original text will still be available. In a written medium sometimes you miss out on tone of voice. When working on open source software sometimes the web interface, or mailing list, is the only option. So try to be as polite as the written form allows. And take others' messages and feedback with grains of salt. ## Note on pairing If your team’s culture supports pair reviewing it really helps speed up the review process, especially for large PRs. ## Note on Screen Sharing I and teams that I’ve worked on and people I’ve worked with have found that screen sharing is indispensable. Screen sharing is even more effective at code review when done on separate computers using screen sharing rather than shoulder to shoulder for the simple fact that you can both see the screen better. If you’re worried about the bandwidth involved in screen sharing some of the most productive screenshares I’ve been on have been using [tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Installing) with both people logged into one machine and calling on the phone. I was using a cell phone but the same thing could have been done on a landline, or the Plain Old Telephone System (POTS). Nowadays there’s a plethora of screen sharing options, [Zoom](https://zoom.us/), [Slack](https://slack.com/), [Discord](https://discord.com/), [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/), [obs](https://obsproject.com/), [ping.gg](https://ping.gg/), [Pop](https://pop.com/), [vscode live share](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/), [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/), even open source self hosted video chat / screensharing apps like [tlk](https://github.com/vasanthv/tlk). ## Conclusion If you’re reading this and thinking “by following this guide it will take forever to review a PR!”, you’re right. If a PR took a week to write it’s not going to get a thorough review in 20 minutes, set aside several hours to review. You’ll catch more bugs before they hit prod, you’ll learn more, and the time between opening a PR to getting it merged and deployed will actually shrink. ### Tip to managers and senior developers If you’re a manager or a senior developer that can suggest work roles, consider assigning someone (if they want to) or yourself (volunteer) to only do reviews for a week or two if you envision a lot of PRs being generated that week. If programming is truly a team sport and we’re all on the same team then we should succeed together too. abemassry.com/post/2022/12/27abemassry.com/post/2022/12/27# First Blog Post This will be the first of many blog posts. This is the first blog post of this very fine blog, this content will also come out in a newsletter as well. 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The draw being, you don’t need to buy an expensive desktop computer housing an equally (if not more) expensive graphics card. You could game on your console, laptop, or even smartphone while the game runs on a very powerful computer in a datacenter located in the cloud. That goal is no longer elusive though, now, there are several Cloud Gaming services that allow you to do this. The first time I came across this technology was through a service called [OnLive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive) they were one of the first, if not the first, Cloud Gaming companies. What if you wanted to set this up yourself though? I have developed a couple of methods for doing this which I’ll walk you through, as well as some ideas for the future of DIY Cloud Gaming. ## Method One: Parsec Cloud Gaming [Parsec](https://parsec.app) is not a Cloud Gaming service like the others, it’s much more. It’s a piece of software that allows low latency remote desktop connections, it’s even more than this though. My friend [@kenjihasegawa](https://twitter.com/kenjihasegawa) would play 2-player local co-op games with me during quarantine, even though we were 40 miles apart, we were able to play local co-op. We’re big fans of the [shmup genre, which we broadcasted playing on Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/abemassry). How did we play locally even though we were separated so far apart, you ask? When I started the Parsec server on my desktop and [@kenjihasegawa](https://twitter.com/kenjihasegawa) connected to my machine with the Parsec client he could see a video feed of my desktop and hear the in game music and sound effects, in addition his USB controller showed up as a USB controller on my machine. He also remarked that there was virtually no lag between pressing a button on the controller and having his character move on screen. If I had to step away for a sec though it’s like he was using a Cloud Gaming service, except it was his friend’s machine. Though the difference between this service and the others is it brought us together, even though we were physically distant. It was like sitting next to your friend on the couch and playing video games, even though the internet was making it possible, it felt like you were right next to each other. ## Method Two: Rent a Machine in the Cloud A few years ago I was lucky enough to be given access to a [Cloud GPU](https://www.linode.com/products/gpu/) Virtual Machine provided by [Linode](https://www.linode.com/). This allowed me to install an OS and see if the machine could be used for Cloud Gaming. The results ended up being very successful. The local hardware that is needed in your home is a [Steam Link](link to steam link) (or a Raspberry Pi, or a computer running the steam link software) and a separate Raspberry Pi (or Linux machine). The goal of all of this is to bring the virtual machine into your home and make the Steam Link think that Steam is running locally, even though it’s running in the Cloud. For this method of the guide the “Server” is actually the RaspberryPI and the “Client” is actually the Cloud GPU instance you are renting. The Server and Client roles are what wireguard calls them and what you’re doing is basically bringing the Cloud GPU instance into your living room.  ### Step 1: Setup a wireguard server on the Raspberry Pi I started out by following this guide https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-to-configure-wireguard/. The official install docs actually worked well: https://www.wireguard.com/install/ In the guide they go over these steps for the public and private key on the server: ``` umask 077 # This makes sure credentials don't leak in a race condition. wg genkey | tee privatekey | wg pubkey > publickey ``` Here is my wg0.conf file with the keys removed: ``` sudo cat /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf [Interface] Address = 192.168.2.1/24 PrivateKey = <Server Private Key> ListenPort = 51820 PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -A FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -D FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -i eth0 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.2.2; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE [Peer] PublicKey = <Client Public Key> AllowedIPs = 192.168.2.2/32 ``` replace the above eth0 with the main interface for the Raspberry Pi, it may be different Then enable IP forwarding, as root: ``` echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ``` Enable port forwarding on the router for the wireguard's server's IP address to 51820 This is where you have to go into your router’s setup and enable port forwarding, this part of the guide is difficult to describe because each router has a different page to set this up, usually it’s a webpage accessible on the local network. Then test it out: ``` sudo wg-quick up wg0 ``` There is more server config we'll get to later ### Step 2: Set up the Client The Cloud GPU instance was running Ubuntu 18.10 when I set this up, which is now EOL, but a recent version should work the same. ``` sudo apt update sudo apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop build-essential x11vnc wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/430.14/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.14.run chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.14.run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.14.run --compat32-libdir /opt ``` Enter this into /etc/X11/xorg.conf ``` # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 430.14 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "Quadro RTX 6000" BusID "PCI:0:3:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "True" SubSection "Display" Virtual 1920 1080 EndSubSection EndSection ``` The Specific important section is the "Screen" section. You can replace abe with your name below ``` adduser abe ``` then reboot the Cloud GPU Instance once it comes back up, log in and run this: ``` screen sudo x11vnc -storepasswd $&*^(SuperSecretPassword1234PleaseChange&#^@$ /etc/x11vnc.pass /usr/bin/x11vnc -xkb -forever -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -display :0 -rfbauth /etc/x11vnc.pass -rfbport 5900 -bg -o /var/log/x11vnc.log ``` and you should be able to connect via vnc and install steam and download games. Install wireguard according to the official docs Private and public keys have to be generated on the client as well, here is the wg0 conf file: ``` cat /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf [Interface] PrivateKey = <Client Private Key> ListenPort = 21841 # The addresses to bind to. Either IPv4 or IPv6. /31 and /32 are not supported. Address = 192.168.2.2/24 [Peer] PublicKey = <Server Public Key> # The IP range that we may send packets to for this peer. AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0 # Address of the server # Internet address Endpoint = 123.456.789.100:51820 # Send periodic keepalives to ensure connection stays up behind NAT. PersistentKeepalive = 25 ``` then run: ``` sudo wg-quick up wg0 ``` ### Step 3: Now back on the wg server (RaspberryPi) ``` sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.2.2 ``` This will make it so that everyone on the local network will think that your local IP address for the wireguard server is actually the Cloud GPU Instance, in my case my local IP was 192.168.1.101 but that line made the packets get forwarded to 192.168.2.2 and the pings from other machines showed up on the Cloud GPU Instance, this can be viewed with: ``` sudo tcpdump -i wg0 ``` Now vnc might disconnect so you'll have to reconnect to vnc at your local address in my case it was 192.168.1.101:5900 After logging into the window manager in VNC open up a terminal window and type: ``` steam -compat -nochatui -nofriendsui ``` Connect the steam link up and it should find the PC it might be called localhost as it was in my case, it will show up as a Linux steam host Then I think I had to start the game up separately and then connect to it, this part of the UX was the most difficult to pin down and needed more work. ### Thoughts on the second method While not 100% ready for primetime, the technology does work. Wireguard worked flawlessly and was by far the most straightforward piece of the project. Xorg running on a headless display was the least straightforward. The proprietary NVIDIA driver worked well for me. The Linux Steam client was the most inconsistent in behavior. But finally once it was up and running the graphics were very good and the response time was imperceptible vs playing locally on a console. One thing that might have made the Steam experience better was installing Windows on the Cloud GPU Instance. I tried this but could not get the Steam Link to connect to it in fullscreen mode because the Cloud GPU Instance needed one of [these](https://www.amazon.com/FREEGENE-DisplayPort-Headless-Emulator-3840x2160/dp/B075873RJR?_encoding=UTF8&colid=IQ5D798OGK0L&coliid=IEFNM4PJ2EJ5B&psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=massindustrie-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325) to make the software think a monitor was connected. Linux did not have this need and is able to trick it in software with the `xorg` config. ## Final Thoughts After comparing the two methods you might be able to see where I’m going with this. The outcome is to have a powerful desktop possibly with an equally powerful GPU with the special [adapter](https://www.amazon.com/FREEGENE-DisplayPort-Headless-Emulator-3840x2160/dp/B075873RJR?_encoding=UTF8&colid=IQ5D798OGK0L&coliid=IEFNM4PJ2EJ5B&psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=massindustrie-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325) connected, with Parsec and steam installed, so you or your friend can game from anywhere. There might even be services on the horizon that work with something like XBox Game Pass which gives you access to all the games for a monthly fee. When you combine a monthly service for the hardware and the software it starts to make sense that everything can be rented. As opposed to the scenario above and the first method I’ve provided above where you own everything, the hardware, the software and the remote devices. Owning everything does come with its issues as well because if there’s a problem, there’s no one else to solve it. The second method I’ve provided shows you how you might start to build your own Cloud Gaming company basing it off of Cloud GPU Instances that you can rent. One could build services on top of this that spin up installations on demand so people could take their entire library of games they already have and start playing them in the cloud. The major game changer that has allowed all of this is internet speed. Writing this now in 2021 internet speed has picked up enough where Cloud Gaming is viable. In the past the latency was too high and the necessary broadband speeds were not fast enough, nor widely distributed enough. Now you can find a server farm or a friend's house with broadband that has the speed necessary to do Cloud Gaming. In addition everything that I’ve mentioned was within a 100 mile (161 km) radius to my Steam Link and desktop PC. In the future the extreme computing resources are going to move closer to where they are going to be consumed and where it makes sense geographically and population density wise. This is currently called Edge Computing in the industry, and what it means for the average gamer is Cloud Gaming resources closer to where they live. The reason these hyper local computing resources are needed to combat latency is because of the speed of light. But going deep into Einstein’s relativity theory is a post for a different time.