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Multiplayer Game Development with HTML5

By : Rodrigo Silveira
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Multiplayer Game Development with HTML5

By: Rodrigo Silveira

Overview of this book

<p>Developing an online game can be just as much fun as playing it. However, orchestrating multiple clients and keeping everyone in sync with a game server, reducing and managing network latency (all the while preventing cheating), and making sure every player has an excellent experience can quickly become overwhelming.</p> <p>This book will teach you how to develop games that support multiple players interacting in the same game world, and show you how to perform network programming operations in order to implement such systems. It covers the fundamentals of game networking by developing a real-time multiplayer game of Tic-tac-toe before moving on to convert an existing 2D single-player snake game to multiplayer, using a more scalable game design for online gaming.</p> <p>Finally you will be tackling more advanced networking topics, allowing you to handle problems such as server queries from multiple users and making your multiplayer games more secure and less prone to cheating.</p>

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Multiplayer Game Development with HTML5
Rodrigo Silveira
May, 2015 | 180 pages
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Multiplayer Game Development with HTML5
Multiplayer Game Development with HTML5
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with Multiplayer Game Programming
Getting Started with Multiplayer Game Programming
Understanding the basics of networking
Socket programming in JavaScript
Game clients
Game servers
Putting it all together – Tic-tac-toe
Summary
2
Setting Up the Environment
Setting Up the Environment
JavaScript outside the browser with Node.js
Writing modular JavaScript
Managing Node.js packages with Npm
Managing frontend packages with Bower
Automating your workflow
Summary
3
Feeding a Snake in Real Time
Feeding a Snake in Real Time
Hello world for game development
The game loop
Implementing an authoritative server
Understanding the game loop
Lobby and room system
Matching players within game rooms
Socket.io
Summary
4
Reducing Network Latency
Reducing Network Latency
Dealing with network latency
Fixed-time step
Synchronizing the clients
Predicting the future with a local game server
Error correction
Summary
5
Leveraging the Bleeding Edge
Leveraging the Bleeding Edge
HTML5 – the final frontier
Maximizing your game with the fullscreen mode
Better controlling with gamepad
Peer-to-peer with WebRTC
Capturing the moment with Media Capture
Summary
6
Adding Security and Fair Play
Adding Security and Fair Play
Common security vulnerabilities
Building secure games and applications
Reinventing the wheel
Fair play and the user experience
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Mahmoud Ben Hassine is a software engineer with several years of experience in designing and developing Java-based solutions. For the last 10 years, he has worked in different industries (transport, telecommunication, and e-commerce) as a developer, team leader, consultant, and mentor.

Mahmoud is a passionate software developer who writes code for fun. In his spare time, he contributes to open source projects, writes technical articles, and gives talks about Java-related technologies.

I would like to thank my family and my friends for their constant support, encouragement, and patience.

Vinod Madigeri is a software developer, game engineer, and technology enthusiast. He has worked with several game companies, and he recently graduated from the highest rated game development program at the University of Utah with a master's degree in entertainment arts and engineering.

I would like to thank my professors at the entertainment arts and engineering program for their continuous support and dedication to expand my knowledge of game engineering.

Daniel Magliola has been writing code since he was 7 years old and games since he was 8. Through the years, he's dabbled in multiple technologies, such as GW-BASIC, C++, VB6, DirectX, C# and finally HTML5/JavaScript. These days you'll find him working at his start-up and experimenting to squeeze a few extra FPS out of JavaScript engines.

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