Project Ensemble is an experiment in crowd design, where players, developers and artists collaborate to collectively design a browser-based multiplayer online game. Ensemble is currently suspended. There are plans for the future to revive the idea in a slightly different format. The source code of the project is available on…
Interest management is a very important technique to make massively multiplayer online games scale better. In this article, I’ll first start by explaining what it is and why it is useful. I’ll proceed with a concrete example, showing how it was implemented in Phaser Quest. This article is part of…
In a previous article, I explained the basics of making a multiplayer online game. From there, many improvements are possible and desirable with respect to clients synchronization, especially for more complex games such as Phaser Quest. A crucial aspect in real-time multiplayer online games is to keep all clients synchronized….
In this article, I’ll explain how the server of Phaser Quest keeps track of the latency of all connected player throughout the game. The code presented here is part of Phaser Quest’s source code. What is latency and why measure it Latency is the time it takes for a data…
Phaser Quest is a reproduction of Mozilla’s multiplayer online game Browserquest. Explore the world, find better equipment, fight monsters and defeat the final boss, alone or with friends! It was made with Phaser, Node.js and Socket.io. Click here to play the game! This game is open source under the MIT…
In this tutorial, we will see how to program the client and server of a very basic real-time multiplayer online game, and how to make them interact using Socket.io. In this small game, each player will move his or her character by clicking on the map, while the characters of…