So apparently, braains.io went mini-viral on VK (Facebook equivalent of Russia), and we had 70+ concurrent players on the server. The frame rate went down to about 5 FPS (literally unplayable). Mix that with server instability with recursion errors that consume memory, the server stayed up about 20 minutes until it would shut down again.

It was a rough day. I stayed up coding until 5AM addressing the below:

memory leak

limiting client # to 32 players. (rejecting everyone else with sorry msg)

kicking afk’ers after 90 sec of idle

allowing up to 2 players per IP address (for now)

It’s been about 5 days since the game was released. I wasn’t ready for this. Gonna get more server instances up asap.