Pixel Cloud

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Introduction

I am excited to present my project, which I have been working on for the past year. It represents my personal take on cloud gaming and was inspired by projects like Google Stadia and Microsoft XCloud. The main idea of the project is to provide users with the ability to run AAA games on thin clients (such as phones, tablets, and PCs without graphics cards needed for complex graphical computations) through cloud technologies.

Demo

Development environment

• Operating System: Arch Linux.
• Programming Language: Go.
• Hardware Requirements: AMD GPU (not tested with NVIDIA GPUs).
• Installed Packages:
  • yay: is used for installing necessary packages.
  • xorg-xrandr: Utility for managing screen resolution and display settings in X11.
  • drm_info: For gathering information about Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) on the system.
  • mongodb: Database used in the project.
  • ffmpeg: The latest version of FFmpeg for handling video encoding and streaming.
  • js: JavaScript-related tools or libraries.
• AMD GPU Drivers:
  • mesa, lib32-mesa: Open-source graphics drivers.
  • xf86-video-amdgpu: Driver for AMD GPUs.
  • vulkan-radeon, lib32-vulkan-radeon: Vulkan support for AMD GPUs.
  • libva-mesa-driver: For video acceleration (VAAPI) on AMD GPUs.
• Certificates: mkcert is used for generating local certificates.

Setup:

1. Ensure that Docker and Docker Compose are installed.
2. Install required packages using:

3. ffmpeg js xorg-xrandr mesa lib32-mesa xf86-video-amdgpu vulkan-radeon  lib32-vulkan-radeon libva-mesa-driver mkcert

4. Install required packages using from AUR via yay or another manager:

   yay -S drm_info mongodb-bin

5. Clone the main repository:

   git clone https://github.com/FurmanovVitaliy/self-hosted-cloud-gaming-service.git
   cd self-hosted-cloud-gaming-service

6. Clone the repository containing the necessary Docker images and build them :

   git clone https://github.com/FurmanovVitaliy/gaming-vm-in-dockers
   cd gaming-vm-in-dockers
      # Build the base image
   docker build -t arch:base ./base
      # Build the ffmpeg-audio image
   docker build -t arch:ffmpeg-audio ./ffmpeg-audio
      # Build the ffmpeg-video image
   docker build -t arch:ffmpeg-video ./ffmpeg-video
      # Build the portprotone image
   docker build -t arch:portprotone ./portprotone
      # Build the pulseaudio image
   docker build -t arch:pulseaudio ./pulseaudio

7. Clone the repository with a script that allows you to run virtual displays:

   git clone https://github.com/FurmanovVitaliy/virtual-monotors-script
   cd virtual-monotors-script
   docker-compose build

8. Ensure you create certificates using mkcert and build the containers.
9. Find example_config.yaml in server/config/example_config.yamlrename it to local.yaml and make sure that configaration in your config. Edit the local.yaml to ensure the paths to the scripts, certificates, directories, and container names are accurate.
10. Project redy to start.

    #To run serverside:
    cd self-hosted-cloud-gaming-service/server/cmd
    go run main.go
    #To run web interface:
    cd self-hosted-cloud-gaming-service/web
    npm run start

❗ For additional inquiries or issues related to building or starting the application, please refer to the Wiki section in "Technical Documents and Notes."

Technical documents and notes

• Wiki
• Third-party libraries and software

Current State of the Project

• The foundation for scalability has been laid. 👌🏻
• Project in developing 🛠️

Acknowledgements

A special thanks to my wife for independently creating the design for this project in Figma. This project was developed with her creative vision, and I deeply appreciate her hard work and dedication throughout the entire process.

• Daria's Notion Portfolio

Plans

• Add multi-controllers support
• Add keyboard and mouce suppor
• Rewrite frontend with NEXT.js / React for SSR
• Implament PostgreSQL support instead MongoDB
• Implament QUIQ webtransport instaed of WebRTC

From Autor

This project has become a practical testing ground for me to master and experiment with new technologies and programming languages. Instead of writing yet another To-Do list, I chose a more ambitious idea—creating a cloud gaming platform.

The project was built from the ground up and assembled "from scratch." It has been brought to a technically functional state, but it will likely remain at this level of development. I lack the motivation to further develop this project, primarily because similar solutions already exist and offer significantly richer functionality. Some of them have already ceased to exist and have been forgotten.