PhaserWebSocketGame

Work in progress

This Project aim to be bootstrap Phaser project for turn based isometric games where the player in moving on a grid.

Commands

• D: enter debug-mode
• SPACE: enter combat-mode if another player in ont the current map

Features

• Randomly generated maps based on a seed (Seedrandom) rendered with isometric tiles
• Multiplayer enabled using Socket.io (the players can see eachothers moving on the different maps)
• Movement enabled by clicking using an A* pathfinding client side
• Feild of view of the player computed with a recursive shadowcasting

Setup project

• Install node
• At the root of the repo Type npm install
• Type grunt and wait few seconds (that will retieve the bower dependencies, retrieve the .d.ts files and build the typescript of the server and the client)
• Start the server with node app.js
• Connect to localhost:3000 with as many browsers as you want!

Technos used

In Client

• Phaser
• Phaser Isometric Plugin
• easystar.js

In Client & Server

• Lodash
• Requirejs
• Socket.io
• Typescript
• DefinitlyTyped

In Server

• Nodejs v4.2.2
• Express
• Seedrandom

Development grunt commands

• grunt ts:public: Compile the typescript client files
• grunt ts:server: Compile the typescript server files
• grunt dev-server: Run a watch on the server files, compiling the typescript files and restarting the node server
• grunt dev-public: Run a watch on the client files, compiling the typescript files
• grunt dev: Run both watches
• npm run test: Run unit tests (note: needs jasmine node installed npm install jasmine-node -g)
• npm run play: Alias for grunt ts:server ts:public && node app.js

Note: I've added the node package devloop just install it and run loop to dev with it.

Licence

MIT