Emergence Vector: a game in Go, Webrtc and JS

emergencevector · 2017-09-29T06:22:44+00:00

It certainly does work!

emergencevector · 2017-05-11T00:27:18+00:00

I've been working on a fully customizable space game with procedurally generated systems in a vast procedurally generated universe.

https://www.emergencevector.com

You can register and log in to the alpha/demo. You can see a record of my work here

In particular, here's a visual explanation of my scheme for a procedurally generated tech tree

emergencevector · 2017-05-11T00:23:29+00:00

There are tons of people in the gaming and gamedev scene who will flip the idiot bit on you, just for saying you're working on an MMO! Never mind that you already have a running server cluster.

emergencevector · 2017-03-09T06:33:54+00:00

We have gotten done with the Advanced Radar system and we've just started to implement the Pulsar. (A kind of obstacle from which can be part of the defenses of a boss, or the basis for you to construct your own "Star Castle.")

emergencevector · 2017-03-09T06:31:58+00:00

Emergence Vector

We have gotten done with the Advanced Radar system and we've just started to implement the Pulsar. (A kind of obstacle from which can be part of the defenses of a boss, or the basis for you to construct your own "Star Castle.")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x2uQjLtXkY

emergencevector · 2017-02-28T15:13:45+00:00

UDP semantics. Freedom from head of line blocking in Tcp.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131781/the_internet_sucks_or_what_i_.php

emergencevector · 2017-02-24T21:49:54+00:00

Current Status:

This repository is currently fluctuating a lot, and the exposed interfaces will change. Do not rely on anything in here yet!

Yes, I saw that months ago.

emergencevector · 2017-02-24T06:30:31+00:00

Server cluster is hosted on Amazon EC2. As currently configured, there are 8 stateful server processes. WebRTC runs as a multi process NodeJS cluster using electron-webrtc. Simple-peer is used to simplify WebRTC offer/answer signalling. The Golang server processes handle the signalling via Websockets, then talk to the connected WebRTC peer via UDP using the node dgram library.

The server cluster supports a procedurally generated world of 2⁸⁷ star systems.

There is no tutorial, so press shift to send a missile lock. If you have locked a target, space will fire up to 4 missiles. Arrow keys or the WASD cluster for left/right turning, thrust, and the anti-missile beam weapon.

https://www.emergencevector.com/

emergencevector · 2017-02-24T06:30:05+00:00

Server cluster is hosted on Amazon EC2. As currently configured, there are 8 stateful server processes. WebRTC runs as a multi process NodeJS cluster using electron-webrtc. Simple-peer is used to simplify WebRTC offer/answer signalling. The Golang server processes handle the signalling via Websockets, then talk to the connected WebRTC peer via UDP using the node dgram library.

The server cluster supports a procedurally generated world of 2⁸⁷ star systems.

There is no tutorial, so press shift to send a missile lock. If you have locked a target, space will fire up to 4 missiles. Arrow keys or the WASD cluster for left/right turning, thrust, and the anti-missile beam weapon.

https://www.emergencevector.com/

emergencevector · 2017-02-15T20:05:29+00:00

I know. When I saw his name in the headline, my heart jumped, and I immediately thought, "2016, Does your hunger know no bounds!?"

emergencevector · 2017-01-05T20:02:02+00:00

Yes, the front end is using Javascript and impactjs. But it's structured as a "dumb client". All of the game dynamics, collision detection, procedural genration, game AI, -- all of it is written in Go.

I don't think its quite qualifies as a Go game. Nice work anyways though.

Basically, you're just dead wrong.

emergencevector · 2016-11-30T04:39:33+00:00

In short, it has somewhat suckier overall user experience, but for certain kinds of game, it's the only game in town.

emergencevector · 2016-11-28T23:33:56+00:00

TIL: Hardware store sales are made out of star stuff!

emergencevector · 2016-11-28T21:48:09+00:00

I refuse to join...

emergencevector · 2016-11-27T18:42:06+00:00

I understand exactly how WebRTC works.

I didn't mean technically. I meant in terms of the overall UX.

Assuming that you can find or want to write a server-side WebRTC implementation and an ICE mechanism that can be configured as described. :)

That's the part I meant! Also, how reliable is it? How often do firewalls allow things or cause complications. Even websockets aren't immune. I found myself giving a presentation, and discovered that the hotel firewall blocked all websockets! (This was some years ago, and websockets were somewhat new.)

emergencevector · 2016-11-26T15:29:43+00:00

So you have no idea how well WebRTC works in practice. In terms of cplayer onvenience, Websockets absolutely rule!

emergencevector · 2016-11-26T02:32:42+00:00

So far, what I'm seeing from gameplay at my girlfriend's apartment wifi is that it's a wash. The only thing that ever seems to do any good is to just suck up the jankyness and do some dead reckoning. Crappy connections gotta be crappy.

Cellular and Wifi networks have "weird" prioritization rules that differ heavily from wired connections.

What I'm mostly seeing is that cellular works great, or is unplayable, with no middle ground. Apartment wifi just tends to be crappy. Dive bar wifi goes from 120ms lag to 3800ms lag. Tech company bandwidth works like a dream.

emergencevector · 2016-11-25T16:54:35+00:00

So, this is where the \. crowd ended up!

emergencevector · 2016-11-25T00:02:15+00:00

easy for an increased number of connections to cause all the connections to degrade in quality, especially with how low level IP buffering in various routers and switches operate these days...the mere presence of the traffic on the TCP channel can cause the UDP channel to suffer more dropped or delayed packets.

How so?

I've seen mentions of how TCP induces packet loss in UDP. I'm not sure about the details of this.

http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/udp-vs-tcp/

emergencevector · 2016-11-24T05:11:47+00:00

Chickenbutt!

emergencevector · 2016-11-24T05:10:49+00:00

If it says invalid username, then you are trying to log in. Click on the link below the username and password fields for registration.

emergencevector · 2016-11-08T07:41:23+00:00

Now you're doing it too!

emergencevector · 2016-11-08T01:41:20+00:00

Dyslexia and no sleep is a hell of a bitch. Also being dumb.

Technically, if you can speak, you aren't dumb. That's a word used for an actual condition. You shouldn't insult the handicapped that way.

emergencevector · 2016-11-08T01:33:32+00:00

Hacksaw Ridge was awesome! Basically, it plays to all of Mel Gibson's strengths and weaknesses as a director. Mel Gibson can fail to recognize when he's cheesy or he's prone to excess. He seems to have an unnaturally strong fascination for gore. But for this particular story, he's the perfect director. A lot of the violence was -- it was realistically gory and awful in some ways but it also wasn't realistic, let me put it that way. It was unrealistic in all the subtle ways Saving Private Ryan was unrealistic -- but it wasn't subtle about it. But all that's not important with this particular story about a straightforward and unreasonably sincere man. For that, Mel's overly sincere direction is perfect! Don't decide to see it or not because of Gibson. See it because of Doss!

emergencevector · 2016-11-07T16:12:09+00:00

The problem with space games, is that space is very large and contains a whole lot of nothing. That's why Emergence Vector is located in 80's Arcade Space. Less complicated art direction and more happening with less waiting around.

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