bahuman / multipong

pong multiplayer based on game-of-everything protocol

MultiPong

pong multiplayer based on game-of-everything protocol

##Prerequisite

This game connects to a helper application called "Game of Everything" (see https://github.com/Squarific/Game-Of-Everything). It uses websockets and the JSON format for all messages, and it will quietly ignore any messages it doesn't understand.

##Status

You can choose your nickname, choose host or join, and then connect. (No check is done for duplicate nicknames) When the hosting player presses "fire", the game starts for all players currently joined. The position of all the edges as well as min/max position for the player paddle are communicated to all players. A "ball" (I used a cube in order to have interesting collisions) is launched and bounces off the walls.

Todo

• test that only the local paddle listens to keyboard input
• test that paddle positions are correctly broadcast, and interpreted by other players
• server should restart game when new player joins
• win/lose conditions

multipong's Issues

accept player join events and store player list

players should accept game start event

this includes:

• draw the paddles & goals as instructed by the host
• set the camera to somewhere behind the "own" paddle depending on where the host put you
• start controlling the "own" paddle & broadcast paddle move events
• update balls & paddle positions based on updates

Protocol?

World status nodig?

{
  type: "pong-status"
  world: {
    radius: 200,
    sorted-equalsided-manyhook: [
      {"x": 500, "y": 429},
      {"x": 500, "y": 429},
      {"x": 500, "y": 429},
      {"x": 500, "y": 429},
      {"x": 500, "y": 429},
      {"x": 500, "y": 429}
    ]
  },
  ball: {
    size: 10,
    position: {"x": 500, "y": 429},
    speed: {"x": 500, "y": 429}
  },
  playerwidth: 10,
  playerheight: 50,
  players: [{
    id: 'trol',
    position: {"x": 500, "y": 429},
    speed: {"x": 500, "y": 429},
    points: [0, 1]
  }]
}

duplicate player name should cause an error

host/join menu doesn't have a sensible default value (like ws://localhost:8080)

once enough players have joined, the host should set up (and broadcast) a game