A definitive guide for building your multiplayer game on a browser the right way using socket.io on NodeJS and React. Ranging from folder-structur...
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This is great, is this going to be published on a GitHub repo also?
Thanks Adriano! Yes, it is and always will be open sourced. I have already linked the project at the end of the article :D
Ohh cool, I didn't realize it was your own repo :P, sorry about that
Have you already tried geckos.io? It allows client/server communication over UDP, which is perfect for real-time multiplayer games.
I'm the author of geckos.io
I checkout out the project, it looks very promising.
But as mentioned in the geckos.io docs itself, socketio is suggested over geckos for turn based multiplayer games (which is my current project) :D
Would surely look into this if there is any update for turn-based games. Other than that it's a great project!
You're right. For turn-based multiplayer games, which work fine with the limitations of TCP, there is no need for geckos.io 👍🏻
Geckos.io is only needed for games that absolutely require fast communication, like a shooter game for example.
Hey all 👋,
I wanted to make an announcement. It's been a year since I wrote this and I am very grateful that people are still using this as a reference. And I want people to use this even with the new and breaking changes from
socketio.ioThere are a few changes made to the codebase, mainly in the way rooms and connections with a room are handled with the new release of socket.io library v4. As mentioned I had used some internal APIs but they are no longer supported with the new release.
But I have made those changes in my GitHub repository @fifa-api and even added support for Redis to help to scale. I would appreciate it if you would use the code from the Github repo directly than from the snippets here, as I don't want to change this code for people who are using this with older versions.
Thanks for understanding and have a great day ahead 🤠
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Changelog for [github/fifa-api]
This is awesome. Thank you for sharing. I have a few ideas for real time games, and will definitely be following this.
Thanks Udara! Stay tuned for the part 2, I hope it will help you complete your project with deployment
where is part 2?
Sorry, I got held up in some other projects. Should expect the part 2 by next week.
I'll try my best to avoid delays here!
Good write up. =)
Have been waiting for part 2 though!
Apologies for the delay 🙇
But good news, the next part is already half done! Super excited to share it with you guys 😋😋
Socketio game system design and their deployments on scale
P.s: I shouldn't have given the spoiler 🤫
🤩🤩🤩 Awesome! Thanks a lot!
This is really helpful, I am just trying to build a small multiplayer real time game with matchmaking ability and have not been able to find much helpful. I was starting down the road of Nakama for a phaser game I am building, but honestly for the prototype I want to build, I felt like that was overkill. I feel like I can learn a lot from your code and use some of these principals to build the game I am trying to do. Thanks for taking time to help others by sharing.
What is the reason to treat adapter as store. Is it just your idea or some standard? Why not to store data in constructor?
Using socketio adapter as a store is a rather undocumented feature, which is used internally. So not entirely my idea 😉
And we do not use constructor for storing data, as we need persistent storage between users across a single room. With a constructor you will be saving info for each user separately (which is not intended here).
Yes, you can use global variable to store all the information about the room and its users. But using this solution, it won't be secure (as info about all rooms are exposed to the user, yes you can make it better by adding sanitizations and read protects yourself) and second it won't be scalable (as with sockeio-adapter case; using a redis adapter is just a matter of plugging in redis initializer object, and boom now you have storage in an ACTUAL DB, which can be accessed via multiple socketio nodes and hence more scalable)
Really thank you for your exhausting answer
You can explain the game how play ? thanks
Sure! It's a turn-based multiplayer game. This game in particular allows you to build your own Football Team, by choosing players based on turns. You can search these football players based on any stats (their name, rating, team, positions, and a lot more!)
To play:
This was created mainly for offline gaming, to avoid writing player lists manually on a paper or sending on chats when creating custom teams amongst a group of friends. Easily search and add players to your teams with this platform as a middleman :D