visibio

Visibio is a 2d, browser-based MMO game being developed by the St. Mark's Game Dev club.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Server

Prerequisites

You should already have installed Go. If not, you can find instructions to do so at https://golang.org/doc/install.

Installation

To install the visibio server, run the following command:

go get github.com/smgamedev/visibio

This should install a binary called visibio wherever your Go environment is configured to do so.

Running the Server

To run the game server for development, simply run the command:

visibio server

The command line interface includes documentation of commands and flags.

Client

Prerequisites

You need a copy of Node 8.0.0+ (we use v8.10.0 for development) and NPM or yarn for dependencies.

To install dependencies, run:

# npm
npm install
# yarn
yarn

Running the Dev Server

To run the development server, you can use:

# npm
npm run dev
# yarn
yarn run dev

Authors

• Meyer Zinn - Lead Developer
• Jordan Gaines - Client Developer
• Perry Naseck - Student Advisor

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.

Dev notes

generate flatbuffers accessors--

flatc --go-namespace fbs -o . --go protocol/*
flatc --gen-all --gen-onefile --no-js-exports -o client/src --js protocol/visibio.fbs

Physics

Object	Category	Mask
Wall	1	1,2,3
Bullet	2	1,3
Player	3	1,2

Groups are used to prevent collisions between "friend" groups (teammates).