Percept.js handles the crazy multiplayer network stuff.
You focus on making your damn game.

Inspired by the Valve Source Multiplayer Networking Whitepaper, I set out to implement the ideas using Coffeescript and Node.js.

This is still really Alpha

Right now, the documentation is either non-existant, or really lacking. But I'm working on it, because I know that code without documentation (and tests, also currently non-existant) feels ghetto and unsavoury to use.

That said, take a look at examples/simple and see if you can figure things out. It's really pretty cool.

How you can help

Right now, what I really need is to learn how to package this in a way that's elegant and will play nicely in the browser and server-side in Node.js. If you want to mentor me here, please get in touch.

Maybe that means CommonJS modules, or RequireJS, or something else. For now, I have an NPM package for the server-side and a ghetto build task in the Cakefile to compile the client-side. I don't like it, but it works for now. Remember, this is way alpha.

TODO

• Documentation
• Tests
• Server-side rewinding/replaying events (right now we only broadcast events out to clients as we get them)
• Optimization
  • Circular buffers for states on entities

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Gabe Hollombe gabe@avantbard.com

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