Got so excited with focus sis and rails at work that I decided to work on a new personal project. The new project will help new and advance users to use a simple GUI to create web applications based in rails. The project's aim is to have the same easiness to use that MS Access has. However, thanks to the power of ruby on rails, the end result could be a MS Access killer :). Tonight, I worked on the code to generate forms from a GUI wizard.
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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