Node.js is a framework for making server-side Javascript applications, which is becoming more and more popular for game development. It endorses asynchronous I/O and implements CommonJS standards.
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Multiplayer HTML5, Node.js, Socket.IO [closed]
I trying create simple Multi-player with HTML5 Canvas, JavaScript(too using John Resig simple Inheritance library) and Node.js with Socket.IO.
My client code:
var canvas = ...
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How often to save player's state in persistent online games?
In online games, people prefer to log on and off whenever they want. Usually, their game achievements are seamlessly saved, on the server. That is not that difficult to achieve, but I am wondering how ...
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Realtime multi-player game design principles for Node.js
I've been reading the Valve article on multi-player networking which has been adapted from Yahn Bernier's 2001 paper called Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-game Protocol Design and ...
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Tips for communication between JS browser game and node.js server? [closed]
I am tinkering around with some simple Canvas based cave flyer game and I would like to make it multiplayer eventually. The plan is to use Node.js on the server side.
The data sent over would ...
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How can I generate a 2d navigation mesh in a dynamic environment at runtime?
So I've grasped how to use A* for path-finding, and I am able to use it on a grid. However, my game world is huge and I have many enemies moving toward the player, which is a moving target, so a grid ...
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How to keep track of players nearby other players in an MMO
I'm confused how to handle the players in my MMO server (using Socket.IO but I think this should apply to any MMO).
Suppose there are 2 players in my server that are far away from eachother. I will ...
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Common mistakes when developing a game with Socket.io and Node.js
I am not a game developer by trade but am working on a card game (that is real time, not turn based). I was wondering what the common mistakes are that people make when new to this sort of ...
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Get timing correct with client side prediction
I believe I've got my head round CSP after reading Gabriel Gambetta's blog, Valve article and buildnewgames.com but having an issue understanding the time execution of everything.
So if a player ...
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Automatch / queueing players
I'm using Node.js and Redis. I'm trying to come up with a reliable way to automatch players. There is a matching server and then multiple game servers set up.
The following is what I need to have ...
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In Socket.IO, should I use JSON for communication between server and client?
I'm building an MMO with Socket.IO and Node.js. It works quite fast (though I don't have 1000 players yet) but my feeling is that it's not very optimized. JSON is super cool and easy to use within ...
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How to synchronise the acceleration, velocity and position of the monsters on the server with the players?
I'm building an MMO using Node.js, and there are monsters roaming around. I can make them move around on the server using vector variables acceleration, velocity and position.
acceleration = ...
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Physics Loop in a NodeJS/Socket.IO Environment
I'm developing a 2D HTML5 Canvas Game, and I am trying to think of the most efficient way to implement a Physics Loop on the server-end of things, running NodeJS and Socket.IO.
The only method I've ...
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How can I run a Phaser engine game without a window?
I'm currently creating a multiplayer game using the HTML5 framework Phaser.
It's a game where zombies spawn on the map and players have to shoot them to kill them. The zombies target players that are ...
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Collision detection in pong style multiplayer network game
I've recently implemented an authoritative server (node.js with socket.io) for a multiplayer pong game.
I've looked at client side prediction and fixing timesteps and starting to grasp the notion of ...
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Latency benchmarks for WebSocket games?
I'm trying to find some actual latency benchmarks for using WebSockets in HTML5 games. If I were to go down this route, I'd probably end up using (as you might expect) Node.js and Socket.IO.
However, ...
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How can I better implement A star algorithm with a very large set of nodes?
I'm making a game with nodejs in which many enemies must converge on the player as the player moves around a relatively open space (right now it is an open field with few obstacles, but eventually ...
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General directions on developing a server side control system for JS/Canvas Action RPG
Well, yesterday I asked on anti-cheat JS, and confirmed what I kind of already knew that it's just not possible.
Now I wanna measure roughly how hard it is to implement a server side checking that is ...
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Node.js MMO - process and/or map division
I am in the phase of designing a mmo browser based game (certainly not massive, but all connected players are in the same universe), and I am struggling with finding a good solution to the problem of ...
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How to handle shoot instructions, in a multiplayer TD
I'm currently working on a Multiplayer Tower Defense game, using ImpactJS & Node. I seek some clarification about how to handle projectiles from towers, let me explain.
So the server is running ...
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Shortcut for NodeJS server [closed]
I am tired of typing "cd c:\socket\nodejs"
"node testserver.js"
Into the command promt..
How do I create a shortcut or bat for it?
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Can various browsers be assumed to maintain predictible state accurately in multiplayer online gaming?
With many games it is said that server will assume that clients keep track of the world accurately. Assuming this is true, for a browser based multiplier space invaders game you would only tell the ...
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Tracking player location in realtime 2d mmo
I have read all of the answers here about tracking player locations, but still have some questions. I don't seem to understand how to do this efficiently, and feel that the internet could greatly ...
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Can I use Node.js on consoles?
I was wondering if Node.js was suitable for making games and apart from threads and engines, a big problem is can I port my game to Xbox or PS3/PS4?
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OOP implementation of BUFFS and Stats. Suggestion
I am developing an MMORPG server using NodeJS.
I am not sure how to implement Buffs, i mean, equipped objects or used skills have effects on the Player() which has many Stats(), some of them have a ...
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Is it sensible to run a Socket.IO setImmediate loop for each connected player?
Instead of a game loop, I want something different: My game does not have much action going on; just moving users over a tile map with correct timers in between.
Since I am using Socket.IO, I want to ...
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How to update the monsters in my MMO server using Node.js and Socket.IO
Currently I am creating an MMO using Node.js and Socket.IO.
The node server needs to handle connections for players, and also use a loop to update all monsters positions in my game and let them ...
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Handling increasing numbers of users (server)
For this post, we'll assume my game is multiplayer chess as it essentially requires the same functions. User logs in to the server and requests a game - the server provides a simple matching service ...
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Multiplayer game with Cocos2d-Javascript and Node.js
It is possible to make a multiplayer browser based game using cocos2d-javascript + node.js? If so, is there any tutorial about that?
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server-side language for multiplayer card game [closed]
I am trying to develop a web-based multiplayer card game similar to poker, but with some changes to its rules. The game needs to be secure, so it needs a game-client for UI and actions, and a ...
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Gamemaker multiplayer using 39dll
I am making a gamemaker multiplayer game using 39dll's tcp sockets. As I want to host the server (and my javascript knowledge is a lot better), I use node.js for the server. I have already got ...
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I'm making flash MMO game, what to do next? [closed]
I've made several flash games before, and my next project is a flash MMO game. Right now, I'm learning node.js for the server side software, so far I can make a hello world server, read & write ...
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Node.js/V8 as a Platform for High End Local PC Game Development?
As a Web/UI dev rapidly expanding into more wide-open generalist territory, the more I learn about how its done in other languages, the more I love JS for architectural and basic ...
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timezone independant Date.now() for node.js game
I have a game I'm working on using node.js and socket.io. The issue I'm having, is I'm trying to have it so that players execute whatever actions they inputed about 50ms in the future, giving everyone ...
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Persistent Data for Multiplayer, Browser-Based Games
What is generally used to store persistent data in online games - browser games/facebook apps, in particular?
I have used MySQL in web development before - but I've read that it's not very scalable, ...
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Am I doing this node.js game loop wrong?
I have 2 arrays of JSON objects, actions and game objects.
At any time a user can make a request from the client which can add an action to the actions array.
I have a setInterval(function(){ }, ...
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How can a NodeJS server be used from Game Maker HTML5?
I want to create a client-server game that runs on Game Maker HTML5-NodeJS. The NodeJS server will be an AI server - a bot that acts like a human opponent and plays against the human player at a ...
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How do I make a message based communication system between objects?
Just as I was told here, I need to make some kind of communication between objects in my game. Mainly, for achievements. How do I do this? My idea was to make every object have an array attached to ...
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Multiplayer game principles
I am developing game using libGDX libraries . I want to create multiplayer mode , where several players can play at the same time in the same room , each player can create his own room and other ...
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nodejs game server timer
I'm new to game server develop.
I'm developing a card game server.
How could I make nodejs server wait for few seconds then push data to client after an event fired ?
Example : in poker game, one ...
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Node.js 3D game? [closed]
Would it be suitable for making 3D games in an open world?
Of course provided that I :
create a node add-on in order to bind opengl
code a native layer for making threads and processes
I can ...
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Developing a general use multiplayer API [closed]
I'm tasked with the development of a general use multiplayer API in JavaScript, with a Node.js back-end. The goal of the API is to provide a service to JavaScript mobile game developers so they can ...
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How do I implement pixel-exact collision server-side?
Recently I made a 2D offline game with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript. I'm detecting collisions by first checking whether image bounding boxes overlap. If they do, I check against the bounding boxes, ...
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Node.js Lockstep Multiplayer Architecture
Background
I'm using the lockstep model for a multiplayer Node.js/Socket.IO game in a client-server architecture. User input (mouse or keypress) is parsed into commands like 'attack' and 'move' on ...
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Tips on building a real time multi player web platform + framework and/or tookit
I'm trying to develop a multi player game web app which basically should be able to achieve the following goals:
Provide a game engine + framework/toolkit to let third party corporation integrate ...
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Approaching syncing between client and server, in a Tower Defense game
I am currently working on a Multiplayer TD, players can join games, and place towers on a map, so far so good.
This is how the game works as of today, when a new game is created, the server ...
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Handling Latency in Multiplayer Shoot-em-ups
I had an idea for an architecture, and I was wondering if anyone has implemented something like this or has used AWS or some other service to help?
I thought about using NodeJS + SocketIO to handle ...
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Android Multiplayer Game Server [on hold]
I want to do a multiplayer checkers game for android platform. Now, the problem is that I dont know about the server management, ie , which server to be used, how to connect with it. etc...
Which is ...
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Fix latency when sending state
I have a multiplayer game done with Phaser, which runs in the browser and on a node.js server.
The server is authoritative, every 50ms or so it sends the game state object to all clients. The clients ...
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node-webkit and OpenGL 4
Is there any way to get OpenGL 4 to work within a node-webkit app? It would have to be OpenGL 4 and since it's running on a desktop app I would think there must be a way to get it to work. I can't ...
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NodeJS setTimeOut - How to run callback before delay time exceeded
I'm developing a card game server.
I want to do this :
While server process a turn for players, players have 20 seconds to do something. If players send a request to server within 20 secs, timer will ...
