waxzce/nodekick

multiplayer fighting game

Nodekick

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.

Nodekick is a realtime, multiplayer fighting game built using NodeJS, socket.io, and pixi.js.

This codebase is a cleaned up version of what our team built for Node Knockout 2013. Out of 385 teams, we placed 15th overall and 6th in the "fun/utility" category.

You can play online here.

#Screenshots and Instruction to deploy your own Nodekick.

##jump

##attack

##kill

##victory

##Run Locally

Due to the use of websockets (and time sensitive game events over those sockets), this game server will not perform well on a Windows machine (tested on Windows 7).

Install all the dependencies:

npm install (you may need to prefix this with sudo if you're on Mac)

Run the app:

node server.js

Then navigate to http://localhost:3000 (use chrome or firefox).

##Signing up, and deploying to Nodejitsu

###Documentation

The documenation was available on the front page (right under the sign up for free button): https://www.nodejitsu.com/getting-started/

Install the Nodejitsu Package

npm install jitsu -g (you may need to prefix this with sudo if you're on Mac)

Register via the command line:

jitsu signup (yes you can sign up via the command line)

You'll get a confirmation email with a command to type in:

jitsu users confirm [username] [confirmation-guid]

If you've already registered, you can login with:

jitsu login

After you confirm your email, you can login (the confirm command should prompt you to log in).

Change the subdomain value in package.json, to reflect the url you want to deploy to:

{
  "name": "nodekick",
  [...],
  "subdomain": "nodekick" <--- this value
}

now deploy:

jitsu deploy

And your app should be up on Nodejitsu.

##Signing up, and deploying to Heroku

###Documentation

From heroku.com, click Documentation, then click the Getting Started button, then click Node.js from the list of options on the left...which will take you here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs

Install Heroku toolbelt from here: https://toolbelt.heroku.com/

Sign up via the website (no credit card required).

Login using the command line tool:

heroku login

Create your heroku app:

heroku create

Git deploy your app:

git push heroku master

Assign a dyno to your app:

heroku ps:scale web=1

Enable websockets (currently in beta):

heroku labs:enable websockets

Open the app (same as opening it in the browser):

heroku open

And your app should be up on Heroku.