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Easel Develops Custom Physics Engine with Incremental Rollback for Larger Multiplayer Games

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raysplaceinspace

1mo ago· 9 min readenNews

Summary

Easel has developed a custom-built physics engine with incremental rollback capabilities, replacing the off-the-shelf engine that required snapshotting and rolling back the entire world every frame. This new architecture allows games built on Easel to support larger, more complex multiplayer environments (like Among Us-scale games) without the performance overhead that previously limited world size. The incremental rollback approach only processes changed elements rather than the entire physics state, making it feasible to run predictive multiplayer at scale.

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We want Easel to be powerful enough to make the kinds of games you would play for hours.
Unfortunately, up to this point, games of that scale were out of reach for Easel, because the off-the-shelf physics engine would have to snapshot and roll back the entire world to support Easel's predictive multiplayer architecture.
It's too much to do every frame.
Until this point, you were required to keep your world small. But not anymore!
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We want Easel to be powerful enough to make the kinds of games you would play for hours.

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