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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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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 = document.getElementById('...
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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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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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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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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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I'm creating a simple racing game (spaceships, no gravity) using p2.js, phaser and node.js. What I have done: Client receives world state from server: extrapolate other players based on latest ...
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Is SSL necessary for a web game? I'm using Node.js with socket.io. Without it, when using unsecured networks someone on the LAN could change commands being sent to the server and "take over" a player....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What's the usual way to handle events that are checked both on server and the client, like attacking? There's a cooldown timer to an attack of which the client is aware (so to prevent spamming server ...
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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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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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I've been thinking about this a lot. I am trying to implement a simple multiplayer game but I have difficulty figuring out how to "share the scene". For example, there are non-player entities like ...
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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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I am using some unity "socket-io" plugin i found on the asset store. (its essentially just a scoket.io wrapper for websocket-sharp) everything works absolutely fine, i can catch clients connecting or ...
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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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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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I'm trying to build my multiplayer game to WebGL in Unity (using Mirror). However, when I press "build", it gives me the following three errors: ...
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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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This is my first foray into game-dev and I only have webapp experience professionally. I'm creating a browser game in nodejs/react. It is mostly text-based, so no intensive graphics (think chess.com ...
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So here I made a little shooter game just to play around with and on my pc it runs fine but for people with worse internet/less powerful computers (e.g at school/few friends of mine) it is quite laggy ...
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CONTEXT: I am currently developing the front-end/ client of a simple browser game using HTML5 Canvas/JavaScript. In the future, I would like to add a multi-player dimension to it, most likely using ...
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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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I have to implement cron jobs in to my MMO browser game. Its like in Travian game - you build something, and wait few minutes or hours.. But the problem is, that cron job shedulers made to be sheduled ...
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I am building a 2d top down multiplayer mmo. very lightweight. a note on architecture I am using Unity as an engine, I have a backend Nodejs/socket.io websockets server. and a main Master client ...
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I am having a look at redeveloping an old flash based top-down zombie shooter game I made in highschool so that it supports multiplayer using socket.io. My ...
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What I am attempting to make is a faux real-time game engine in node.js (taking advantage of the non-blocking I/O). When I say 'faux real-time' what I mean is I want players to interact with the world ...
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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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I'm writing a tank trouble clone just for fun using phaser and node, so this is my tank instantiation ...
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I'm making a multiplayer game in HTML5 Canvas and Node using Express and Socket.io. It's a platformer style game and so far the players are able to see each other and move around on the screen. It ...
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I'm building this game mostly because I want to experiment with Node.js and Socket.io, and the game is more like a proof of concept. To start with, I have a 2D grid system as the game map. ...
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Sorry if my title is a little vague, I wasn't entirely certain how to word this specific question. I'm developing a small little MMORTS game, and in this game is the world map which consists of ...
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I'm trying to check if a pixel of a certain color at (x,y) has moved within a boundary of [(x1,y1),(x2,y2)] and also update its new position to console. I'm doing this as a desktop application so no ...
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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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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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I am using JavaScript + Node.js+Websockets to develop a multiplayer card game. In my single game version the Win determining calculation is done on the client side (of course) with a function. It ...
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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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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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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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I built a multiplayer fighting game with impactjs, socket.io and nodejs and faced with "change variables hack" (I want to call it like this). All my current logic with jump, running, shoot ...
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I'm making a simple game and I use requestAnimationFrame. Now the problem is that when I change to another tab the game pauses and when I return the game continues. ...
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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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OK guys, I have some experience with 2D game development (single player only), so that's fine no questions here. The problem is with multiplayer games. I already read lots of other questions and ...
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So I've been coding a little project in JS recently, using node.js and socket.io to create a server, and HTML5 canvas to draw the client side. The user receives info from the server every 20ms, and ...
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