The grades publishing software that we use at the school is not really nice. We will try to change it to something better and easier to use. I have not switched to Dvorak layout yet. CalvaryGDK is the focus of my attention. I am working on making a platform controller that will enable an object to jump, run and more with the user input. For running the plan is to apply force only if the current velocity of the object is less than the maximum velocity. Still don't know what I am going to do for jumping, but could be something similar taking the Y component of velocity into account.
Construct2 can use websockets to send and receive messages between games. By using socket-io , we can use a Node.js script as the server and my modification to the socket-io plugin for Construct2 to allow the games to synchronize data between them in real-time. There are two parts to this design: the Node.js server and the Construct2 clients (the games playing). The main part of building an online multiplayer HTML5 game is to plan: how the clients will communicate how often and what to communicate how much of the logic will go into the server and how much to the client. In my sample game, I chose to have each client own a player and have the server just relay messages: Use string messages in the form TypeOfMessage, Parameter1, Paremeter2, Parater3, etc to communicate. Have the clients send their player position about 16 times a second. Whenever their player shoots, the client needs to send a message immediately. Almost all of the game logic will...
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