Matching Users by Ranking in a Matchmaking Queue
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Say you want to make a queue that players join where player data looks something like this:
{
playerID: 123,
name: "mr peanut",
ranking: 1337
}
What is the best way to handle finding x similar players in the queue to match with?
I.E. i try to find all players with ranking +/- 10 but there are none, so I wait, then if the queue time is long enough I change to +/- 15, and so on an so forth up to a cap.
My idea would be to store player data into a queue built in redis, and have a worker process constantly scanning through the queue in search of a match. But I'm curious if there are some best practices, tutorials, or general ideas you can help me learn so i can have a better idea.
Requirements: It must be able to scale, and ideally uses a low amount of overhead, scanning seems kind of ridiculous and inefficient at first thought, which makes me think redis might not be the best idea.
Thank you!
architecture queue multiplayer matchmaking
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Say you want to make a queue that players join where player data looks something like this:
{
playerID: 123,
name: "mr peanut",
ranking: 1337
}
What is the best way to handle finding x similar players in the queue to match with?
I.E. i try to find all players with ranking +/- 10 but there are none, so I wait, then if the queue time is long enough I change to +/- 15, and so on an so forth up to a cap.
My idea would be to store player data into a queue built in redis, and have a worker process constantly scanning through the queue in search of a match. But I'm curious if there are some best practices, tutorials, or general ideas you can help me learn so i can have a better idea.
Requirements: It must be able to scale, and ideally uses a low amount of overhead, scanning seems kind of ridiculous and inefficient at first thought, which makes me think redis might not be the best idea.
Thank you!
architecture queue multiplayer matchmaking
asked Nov 22 at 16:44
Sammy Roberts
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Say you want to make a queue that players join where player data looks something like this:
{
playerID: 123,
name: "mr peanut",
ranking: 1337
}
What is the best way to handle finding x similar players in the queue to match with?
I.E. i try to find all players with ranking +/- 10 but there are none, so I wait, then if the queue time is long enough I change to +/- 15, and so on an so forth up to a cap.
My idea would be to store player data into a queue built in redis, and have a worker process constantly scanning through the queue in search of a match. But I'm curious if there are some best practices, tutorials, or general ideas you can help me learn so i can have a better idea.
Requirements: It must be able to scale, and ideally uses a low amount of overhead, scanning seems kind of ridiculous and inefficient at first thought, which makes me think redis might not be the best idea.
Thank you!
architecture queue multiplayer matchmaking
asked Nov 22 at 16:44
Sammy Roberts
1841110
Say you want to make a queue that players join where player data looks something like this:
{
playerID: 123,
name: "mr peanut",
ranking: 1337
}
What is the best way to handle finding x similar players in the queue to match with?
I.E. i try to find all players with ranking +/- 10 but there are none, so I wait, then if the queue time is long enough I change to +/- 15, and so on an so forth up to a cap.
My idea would be to store player data into a queue built in redis, and have a worker process constantly scanning through the queue in search of a match. But I'm curious if there are some best practices, tutorials, or general ideas you can help me learn so i can have a better idea.
Requirements: It must be able to scale, and ideally uses a low amount of overhead, scanning seems kind of ridiculous and inefficient at first thought, which makes me think redis might not be the best idea.
Thank you!
architecture queue multiplayer matchmaking
architecture queue multiplayer matchmaking
asked Nov 22 at 16:44
Sammy Roberts
1841110
asked Nov 22 at 16:44
Sammy Roberts
1841110
asked Nov 22 at 16:44
Sammy Roberts
1841110
asked Nov 22 at 16:44
Sammy Roberts
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asked Nov 22 at 16:44
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