/snakes

Multiplayer Snake Game

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Multiplayer Snake Game. This game was created in 15 hours during HTML 5 Game Jam 
on 9.10.2010 - 10.10.2010 October in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

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Snakes is based on simple concept of usual Snake games. The main
difference is that Snakes is a multiplayer game and therefore
allows interaction between players. Thanks to the HTML 5 and
CSS 3 technology, various 3D effects are present.

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Authors: David Durman & Ales Sturala.

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Snakes uses latest HTML 5 features like Websockets, Canvas and Audio.
The communication between browsers is implemented thanks to
Nodejs, antinode and node-websocket-server.

The only browser tested was Google Chrome 7.0.544.0 dev.

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INSTALLATION:

0. Install Node (www.nodejs.org).
1. Install npm (Node package manager, http://www.github.com/isaacs/npm).
2. npm install websocket-server
3. npm install paperboy
4. Set SERVER properties in ./client/globals.js
5. ./run.sh
6. Open browser, go to http://localhost:8080/index.html
7. Other player on the same net goes to http://<SERVER.WS_SERVER_IP>:<SERVER.WS_SERVER_PORT>/index.html.