anselmo / agar.io-clone

Agar.io clone written with Socket.IO and HTML5 canvas

Agar.io Clone

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A simple Agar.io clone built with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas on top of NodeJS.

Live Demo

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How to Play

You can check out a more elaborated how to play on our wiki

Game Basics

• Move your mouse on the screen to move your character
• Eat food and other players in order to grow your character (food respawns every time a player eats it)
• A player's mass is the number of food particles eaten
• Objective: Try to get fat and eat other players

Gameplay Rules

• Players who haven't eaten yet cannot be eaten
• Everytime a player joins the game, 3 food particles will spawn
• Everytime a food particle is eaten by a player, 1 new food particle will respawn
• The more food you eat, the slower you move

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Latest Changes

• Game logic handled by server
• Client side is for rendering only
• Display player name
• Now supporting chat
• Type-ping in the chatbox to check your ping

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Installation

You can check out a more detailed setup tutorial on our wiki

Requirements

To run the game, you'll need:

• NodeJS with NPM installed
• socket.io
• Express

Downloading the Dependencies

After cloning the source code from Github, you need to run the following command to download all the dependencies (socket.io, express, etc.).

npm install

Running the Server

After downloading all the dependencies, you can run the server with the following command:

node server/server.js

or

npm start

The game will then be accessible at http://localhost:3000.

For Developers

• Game Architecture

FAQ

1. What is this game?

This is a clone of the AgarIO game (http://agar.io). Somebody said that AgarIO is a clone of the game Osmos on the iPad, I have no idea because I have not played Osmos yet. (Hey! Cloneception =]] ) 2. Why you clone this game?

Well. The original game is still online, but it's closed source. And sometimes, it's subject to damn lag. I can play very well at my company (don't tell my boss!) but can't even connect when I'm at home. That's why me and the contributors want to make an open source version of this game, for learning purposes, and to let the community add some awesome features as they want, self-host on their own server to have fun with friends,... 3. Any plan for an online server to compete with AgarIO or make some money?

Actually no! This game belongs to the community, and I have no plan to make money or compete with any product with this. And I won't have enough time to run my own server. But if you want, you can do it. 4. Can I deploy this game to my own server?

Yes you can! This game was made for that! 5. I don't like HTML5 Canvas. Can I write my own game client with this server?

Yes for sure. As long as your client supports WebSockets, you can write your game client in any language/technology, even with Unity3D (there is an open source library for Unity to communicate with WebSockets). 6. Can I use some code in this project to my own project?

Yes you can.