Wordur - Update summer 2025

Written by Sverrir Valgeirsson in gamedev on Wed 16 July 2025. Tags: C#, Blazor, Multiplayer, SQLite, Dokku, Docker, TickerQ, EntityFramework, Game, CoPilot,

This summer has seen a lot of changes in Wordur.

• There is now a background job system (TickerQ)
• PostgreSQL has been changed to SQLite
• New point system
• The application is now a PWA
• Completely new graphics
• Much fewer bugs

I thought I'd go through some of the changes here, why …

Continue reading »

Wordur

Written by sverrirv in gamedev on Wed 28 December 2022. Tags: C#, Blazor, Multiplayer, Dokku, Docker, EntityFramework, PostgreSQL, Game,

Wordur is a simple game that I created during christmas 2022 to practice my C# skills a little and also experiment with a simple, casual, browser based asynchronous game.

The game is simple. Each turn you are given a random letter to place on one of the allowed slots. Form …

Continue reading »

Building and publishing a Godot websocket server on Dokku

Written by sverrirv in gamedev on Sun 18 September 2022. Tags: Godot, Docker, Dokku, Multiplayer,

The title is quite specific, but I would have loved to have this article around when I moved my game Sumur from its old hosting at IBM Code Engine and to my own Dokku server. Also, I remember having had some issues packaging the game in a docker to begin …

Continue reading »

Goodbye Heroku (for now)

Written by sverrirv in dev on Mon 29 August 2022. Tags: Heroku, Dokku, Server,

Now the day came. Heroku has decided to stop with its free plans for running small web applications and their free redis and postgres plans as well. I don't blame them for it, but I am of course a little sad that such a convenient deployment option is going away …

Continue reading »