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 development so that I can avoid them!
There is a Google Techtalk featuring Rob Hawkes, creator of Rawkets, who talks about the problems he ran into while creating his game with Websockets and Node.js. He also comes up with some pretty slick solutions for the problems that he faced.
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\$\begingroup\$ It's a little high-level but overall seems good. I just skimmed through it. \$\endgroup\$ – Davy8 Aug 4 '11 at 11:40
The biggest mistake, is simply playing the games on the client side, and allowing them to communicate their information as they see it. Have the clients simply communicate their input, and render a model sent from the server at discrete intervals. (Store these models in an array with a server-timestamp, then interpolate between two known timestamps to render all actors everyframe)
I have created a framework specifically for creating HTML5 realtime multiplayer games, based on the Client/Server model. In this model, players send only input to the server (keys being pressed) - and the game occurs on the server.
The server sends timed world-snapshots to all clients, and clients render themselves say 75 ms back in time from the current time, by finding two known world updates their rendertime falls between.
Repository (contains 3 demos) https://github.com/onedayitwillmake/RealtimeMultiplayerNodeJs
Video Box2D demo in action: http://vimeo.com/24149718
Slides from JSConf 2011: http://www.slideshare.net/MarioGonzalez15/realtime-html5-multiplayergameswithnodejs-7868336
It's based on Quakeworld and Valve's Source engine whitepapers: http://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/index.php http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_Networking
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\$\begingroup\$ Very nice ! Gonna mess around with it one of these days. \$\endgroup\$ – I.devries Aug 5 '11 at 13:28
You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face
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