racing-game

2D racing game written in JavaScript with a html/canvas frontend and Node.js backend.

Getting Started

1. Make sure you have node.js installed and that these commands work.

    node -v
    npm -v

2. Clone this repository
3. In the main folder run

    npm install

4. Start the web and multiplayer game server

    ./start.sh

or directly run these two commands

    http-server -p 9000 -s
    node server/server.js

5. Go to http://localhost:9000 to play.

Code Orientation

• /race.js holds all of client side game logic
• /client.js holds all of the multiplayer client code
• The /server folder contains code related to the multiplayer game engine
  • /server/server.js is the starting point.

Todo

These are some things that will be implemented next.

1. Show names and appropriate vehicle for remote cars
2. Synchronized start of game
3. Synchronized end of game (1st, 2nd, 3rd place)
4. Position all cars at start
5. Improved Lobby
   1. Create a game
   2. Join a game from a list or code 3. Enter Name, Pick Vehicle
6. Improved networking
   1. Look at switching from json to a binary implementation

You can see the latest version in action here. Or you can try v1.0.