Hiya, I'm Danni — KittyDevil Studio

[Danni]

Hiya everyone,

I'm Danni, from Wiltshire. I run KittyDevil Studio, which is mostly just me and a lot of arguing with multiplayer bugs.

I mostly do browser games and the stuff underneath them. Lately it's been Node.js/WebSockets multiplayer, and a big security pass over MCCodes V2 - the auth, the output escaping, the economy race conditions. I wrote down what I didn't fix as well, because it's a 20 year old codebase and pretending otherwise is daft.

I also make PSX style low poly asset packs, 90s UK council estates and high streets mostly.

Been reading the archives here for a while so figured I'd stop lurking. Happy to talk PHP security, or economy races, or why your tick is firing twice.

Nice to meet you all 😺

[Uridium]

Nice to meet ya Danni 🙂 welcome to MWG

you mention Mccodes V2 im working on an updated version that works on php 8 and above

heres a tester of it so far https:/www.wizwych.co.uk once completed it will be free from the Github project started by Dave Macaulay..

Edited 12 hours ago by Uridium

[Danni]

Thanks Uridium, nice to meet you too!

A proper PHP 8+ update for V2 is well overdue, so good on you. I'll have a poke around the tester. Is it mostly compatibility so far (the old mysql_* calls, the wall of deprecation warnings), or are you going into the security side as well? Prepared statements, CSRF tokens, session fixation, and my personal nemesis: the economy race conditions where two requests land in the same millisecond and someone gets paid twice.

That's the rabbit hole I disappeared down in mine, so if you hit any of the same nasties I'm happy to compare notes. A 20 year old codebase needs all the eyes it can get 😅

[Uridium]

Everything on this has been tested to ensure it works on all versions of PHP 8 upwards without any Depreciation showing. hit me up on Discord if you have it

wizwych

is my ID on there

[Danni]

Nice one, no deprecation spam on PHP 8 is a proper achievement with that codebase 😄 I’ll add you on Discord! 🐾

[peterisgb]

Welcome Danni, careful adding this one to discord, lol, Na Uridium is sound.
I have seen this project and it is very interesting and coming along, The only mccodes i touch myself is the core files with massive updates, to lazy to make a register/login system.
I have several games, only 2 run mccodes. As Uridium, I'm also happy for a discord add. same username.
I look forward to some posts. Just a long time spammer myself here lol.

I also had a peep at your website, What is the PSX British stuff about. for? useage? PSX as in Playstation? maybe a dumb question lol

[Danni]

Hiya, thank you! Lol, he’s been sound so far 😄

Yeah PSX as in the PlayStation 1! They’re 3D asset packs in that old PS1 style, low-poly with crunchy textures, but British. So a council estate, a high street with a chippy, bookies, phone box, that sort of thing. They’re for indie devs making retro or horror games.

Which two of yours are on MCCodes? I’ll add you on Discord as well

[peterisgb]

First on is https://infamouswars.peterisgb.com I started this back in 2008, its been updated but it died off a decade back, I keep it up for nostolgia.
The one I am currently working on is https://factoryblast.peterisgb.com/ Not much yet,
I've only dabbled in basic 3d stuff. non mccodes but i have https://roadbound.peterisgb.com which is in its early stages.
I'll accept the discord when i get to my PC next.

Screenshot from all 3

[Danni]

Ooh nice! Infamous Wars since 2008 is proper going back, love that you keep it up for nostalgia. Factory Blast looks really clean already, and Roadbound is ace, low-poly driving is right up my street lol. No rush on Discord 🐾

[peterisgb]

Thanks, Infamous wars sadly went dead before i finished it and got all the good stuff in.
Low poly driving game with no images or meshes lol, all in JS

[Danni]

Wait, no meshes at all? That’s proper impressive, all built in code lol. Is it three.js or your own thing? Shame about Infamous Wars, sounds like it had big plans

[peterisgb]

It did, counldn't get infamous to kick off and yes, i used three.js for the 3d rendering. I suck at images so i got code to do it, easier than drawing a mesh or image lol.

[Danni]

Ha, fair play, if it works it works lol. three.js is ace for that kind of thing 🙂