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Hi Folks,

For a long time I wanted to build a universal visual scripting program that was like unreal's blueprints but for the languages that I enjoy. I've given a fair few attempts but AI has allowed me to build something I really enjoy using and with tools that I have found make working with complex code bases a bit more visual which is something that helps me a lot.

I also have sons who love coding in various languages so I wanted to build something that helped people who are learning to code transition from stuff like scratch.

Give it a go, see what you think. Enjoy!

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I want to show you the game I created recently and tell you whole the story/experience - including backend/latency/scalability.

You can try it quickly without an account - I created game demo rooms (EU/US/JP) - links below - just be aware that anyone with a link can access join the game.

Let's start with short description of the game itself:

This is the TowerPanic game - you are standing on one of four towers, during each round some of towers crack, and some of these lean, and finally one of these colapse - you need to watch out to not be on the failing one. It's a multiplayer game for whole family. This can be also used as an icebreaking game - for people in any age. The game is safe for children - no violence, no strangers, no chat, no ads. Parent creates an account (free 14-day trial, then a paid pass) and starts the game - others join using a QR code or a link.

Behind the game there is an interesting backend engine - I willdescribe it in a moment.

Let's start with the history of this whole project: - I was playing with asyncio and fastapi - As an exercise I created a reliable chat application (multiple rooms, in each room each user can reliably broadcast a message to all other users) - I extracted communication to separate layer - creating network/application layer interfaces - 'reliable client' interface for client and 'state machine' interface for the service on server. - With these interfaces - I was able to create other service - an 'sgame' (simple game). With verified interfaces and created services (chat, sgame) I was able to ask AI to generate other tools/games - I was impressed by these results - the games/tools worked well - I deployed them on a remote server - I was surprised that the latency was very good - almost everything worked smoothly

I tested the tools and games with my children and one of the game was really great. I decided to make this game public - I chose 'TowerPanic' name for it.

I prepared an account/payment server for this game (as a separate FastAPI application). This was very good choice: - the game servers keep rooms only in memory - nothing persistent (rooms have expiration date) - the account server keeps all persistent data (it uses database)

Because of this split I was able to figure out how to upgrade and scale frontend and backend independently - without significantly impacting users.

I optimized the communication layer - so that it works in finite memory - only finite number of recent messages is kept, and I sent a full service snapshot (full state) to the lagging clients.

The backend process (FastAPI/python) is limited by python GIL (only one core can be utilized) - to utilize all server cores I used HAProxy with consistent hashing to distribute rooms - so that users can be redirected to proper backend process.

I tested how many rooms a single server can handle - it handles hundreds of active rooms in parallel with no significant latency drop.

Before making it public I noticed that latency in other region of world might be higher and this could influence UX - I confirmed this using artificial delay on my remote server.

I decided to deploy the application in three regions - EU, US, JP - to ensure low latency (below 150ms) in most of the world. The room is created in region closest to the user (best latency from the browser to backend).

I needed also to prepare some legal documents (terms, privacy, refunds) - thanks to AI this was much easier. I'm a backend engineer, frontend/UI/UX were designed by me but code was generated by AI.

To summerize all this work: - I'm happy that I was able to deliver complete game/complete product - I think the whole work took me about 20 evenings - I'm impressed that it was so short - I think this is because the technology I used is popular and all fits well - AI was great as a peer (to discuss the options for distributing the load, discuss were to locate servers, or discuss how auth/payments work under the hood, ... - based on this I could choose the best option) - AI was great for doing the non work which I'm doing ineffectively (frontend/UI/legal docs).

The game is available at https://towerpanic.com/?ref=hn

I will appreciate your comments/feedback:

Product: - did you meet any obstacles to play ? - how smoothly it worked ? - please specify your location if it didn't work well - most important thing/things to improve ? - anything else ... Solution/Engineering: - one thing you will change in the architecture / approach ? - anything else ...

If you don't want to register you can play directly using below links (2 rooms for each location, max 10 players in each room/board). Choose best location:

DEMO ROOMS (expire: 19 October 2026 at 22:00 UTC):

EU: https://engine.prod-de-1.towerpanic.com/b/hn1/join/AUB3lS3Y_... https://engine.prod-de-1.towerpanic.com/b/hn4/join/ASlA3J43U...

US: https://engine.prod-us-1.towerpanic.com/b/hn2/join/AUCCS_x9d... https://engine.prod-us-1.towerpanic.com/b/hn5/join/AVQbs_01N...

JP: https://engine.prod-jp-1.towerpanic.com/b/hn3/join/Afj600qp5... https://engine.prod-jp-1.towerpanic.com/b/hn6/join/AUpDUuB1W...

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