Bring up the magic world
Where will your memories take you?
The large-scale "Ember Storm" mobile game, which was launched in September 2021, has created a magical world with life and full of realism, giving many gamers unlimited space for immersive experience.
"Ember Storm" is the first self-developed immersive aesthetic magic MMORPG mobile game launched by Longtu Games. In order to perfectly present the unique charm of magic, the game combines "Romanesque" and "Gothic" architecture across eras. Not only that, the delicate facial expressions and costume textures of the characters, the real-time change of the weather system and the dynamic light and shadow performance make the game full of realism and vitality for one person, one scene, one grass and one tree.
Such a large-scale magic world experience, as soon as the game is launched, it has attracted many players, coupled with the multiplayer and cross-service battle game modes, the high performance and high expansion of the server have become just needed, and the technical support is facing challenges that cannot be ignored.
- On the first day of launch, the server performance pressure is large, the impact is large, and the challenge of explosive services is obvious;
- Multiplayer battles as the main scenario means that the tolerance for network latency is extremely low, and high stability and low latency data access are always required to ensure the user's game experience;
- Cross-service combat activities are easy to form a business super peak within a certain period of time, and the database needs to stably support 100,000-level high concurrent business at the peak of game activities in order to easily cope with the traffic peak of millions of users.
Support the rapid launch of Ember Storm
Smoothly cope with the cross-service battle against the peak of the flood
In the face of the above business requirements, HUAWEI CLOUD provides targeted solutions to ensure the smooth operation of games in real time based on two routes.
Develop a game server deployment plan for business characteristics
- In the game service stage, based on specific business needs, do a good job of resource allocation point-to-point to ensure the smooth start of the game;
- Inspect the underlying resources in advance to avoid game downtime and restart events to the greatest extent;
- For the business structure of the game, customized targeted guarantee services, through the presence of personnel to quickly respond to real-time demands of customers, of which important resources are handed over to special care, to maximize the real-time closed-loop solution of on-site problems.
GaussDB (for Redis) database solves global, cross-service caching and easily copes with traffic spikes
- High stability, can easily cope with 20 times the peak change of service, latency 0.1ms stable and no jitter (p99<0.3ms);
- Auto Scaling can achieve second-level lossless capacity expansion, real-time expansion and ease at the peak of the battle on the first day of service, with zero impact on the business;
- It provides a three-copy disaster recovery solution, which can ensure the consistency of data from the bottom layer, avoid the occurrence of dirty data from the source, and effectively help customers simplify the upper-layer business logic architecture.
Under the strong protection of HUAWEI CLOUD database, Ember Storm has achieved zero bugs online, with a turnover of more than 10 million on the first day of service, and the number of online players in a single day during the peak period of business has reached millions.
Longtu Games is a powerful and industry leader among domestic game developers, with a number of popular games, and continues to be committed to thinking from the perspective of user experience, pursuing excellent quality, and creating high-quality online games. Huawei Cloud has continued to cultivate in the field of database technology for many years and has formed a deep technical background.
The cooperation between the two sides is a win-win situation between entertainment experience and technology empowerment. In the future, HUAWEI CLOUD Database will continue to work with Dragon Map Games to create more game products and create a more ultimate game experience for users.
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