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I am pretty interested in the potential for multiplayer game servers written in Node.js. Most every post about Node that I have seen seems to focus on it as a w
by jcromartie 16y ago
I am pretty interested in the potential for multiplayer game servers written in Node.js. Most every post about Node that I have seen seems to focus on it as a web server/web app platform... but it's not. Using JavaScript for the game on the client side (and I don't mean in a browser) would make it that much better.
- jashkenas 16y agoHere are links to two in-progress fun ones (use Chrome for these), as well as some bits of their source code that are worth reading through... Lazeroids: http://www.lazeroids.com http://www.lazeroids.com http://github.com/gerad/lazeroids-node/blob/master/lazeroids.coffee http://github.com/gerad/lazeroids-node/blob/master/lazeroids... Orona: http://stephank.github.com/orona/bolo.html http://stephank.github.com/orona/bolo.html http://github.com/stephank/orona/blob/master/src/objects/tank.coffee http://github.com/stephank/orona/blob/master/src/objects/tan... ... those are in-browser, of course, but a lot of that logic isn't browser-specific.