Multiplayer doesn’t have to be hard - Paul Butler

Multiplayer makes apps more fun, but the complexity of building it can be overwhelming. This talk introduces DriftDB-React, a React hook library that provides variants of React’s useState and useReducer hooks that synchronize their state between users. Paul will show how he used DriftDB-React along with React Three Fiber to build a multiplayer voxel editor, and talk about why state machine synchronization is a simple but powerful approach to building multiplayer applications.

About Paul
Paul is co-founder of Drifting in Space, a startup building server infrastructure to power ambitious browser-based applications. Prior to Drifting in Space, Paul worked as a quant at Two Sigma and as a software engineer at Google. Paul studied math and computer science at the University of Waterloo, and was born and raised in Halifax, Canada. He now lives in Brooklyn.