Web based game group project for web programming course.
Branch master automatically deployed to: https://steak-game.herokuapp.com
Check out CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions on setting up for development as well as details on testing, deployment and style standards.
Our initial game idea was an asteroids-inspired deathmatch in which players pilot a ship with a cannon and try to destroy each other and avoid asteroids.
Features:
- Rolling lobby system to manage amount of players in a game instance and reduce networking load per game.
- World generation/scaling based on number of players in a lobby.
- Collision interactions between player ships, asteroids and projectiles.
- AJAX login/registration system.
- Backend MySQL database to store users, passwords and statistics.
- Simulation: On the server the World class handles simulating all entities in the game (using recieved player inputs for ships).
- Networking: The server and client communicate via socket.io which uses TCP. On the client-side only relevant player inputs are sent to the server. On the server side, all networking is done via the Lobby class which sends client's simulation frames/snapshots from the World for rendering as well as significant events (e.g. game start, game end). This approach has some limitations, see issue #33 for details.
- Rendering: The client renders all recieved simulation frames/snapshots from the server. Each client sees only the region of space around their ship and so this entails converting from the World coordinates used by the server-side simulation to screen space coordinates (both coordinate systems are measured in pixels). The background stars are generated hourly on the server-side and injected into the served HTML files (so everyone conected will see the same starfield).
- Game-logic: WIP
- Database: Our backend data storage is using MySQL via the "mysql" module.