Unfortaintly for most multiplay game, for the to be decentrilized (not just federated) you will need a blockchain (oh the horror!). Why? most if not all games depend on the oder of which events occured before others. We are trying to capture causaity As far as I know either a central server is used to oder events or a decentrilized system of which blockchains are the only one with the which estable a squence list of event ( Causality). If you hate blockchains you have to three options
find your personal god servers and worship it as the one and only true god.
embrace the death of god and order and design games that do not need to oder events. I whish more could happen here.
embrace the death of god and accept blockchians as the mechinism which orders time. I would recommend crypto-current but nick land for a full understand of this.
Personal side note. From almost day 1 of Ethereum we where trying to design a system that could support extremely low latency needed in gaming with out compromising decentrilization of the network. L2 are a promising step forward but it will still be many years for somethign like this to be possible.
Unfortaintly for most multiplay game, for the to be decentrilized (not just federated) you will need a blockchain (oh the horror!). Why? most if not all games depend on the oder of which events occured before others. We are trying to capture causaity As far as I know either a central server is used to oder events or a decentrilized system of which blockchains are the only one with the which estable a squence list of event ( Causality). If you hate blockchains you have to three options
Personal side note. From almost day 1 of Ethereum we where trying to design a system that could support extremely low latency needed in gaming with out compromising decentrilization of the network. L2 are a promising step forward but it will still be many years for somethign like this to be possible.