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Ask HN: Best multiplayer game engines for JavaScript/Node.js 2016?
What are you using for your multiplayer games written with node.js and javascript on the client?
- bopcrane 10y agoI don't have a wealth of knowledge on the subject as I'm not really a javascript dev, but I do know that Javascript and unity work pretty well together using it as a scripting language. Where nodejs would fit into this, I'm not so sure, but hopefully someone else can chime in on their experience
- rpeden 10y agoIf it's multiplayer, you could use Node along with something like socket.io to handle real time communication between players. You could maybe, possibly, use WebRTC for peer-to-peer communication if you don't mind excluding anyone running Safari and IE. But with a game written in JS and running in the browser, it seems like it would be too easy for someone to modify the code and cheat without a server side component at least trying to verify that everyone is behaving.
- rpeden 10y agoI've seen a lot of people using Phaser as the game engine, and socket.io or ws running on Node to communicate between players.