New Features v7

• status: complete
• version: 7.x

New features in nodeGame 7.x

1. Single-player template: added a single-player game template with one logic hosting all clients in a classic "Guess the Number" game.

2. Improved CSV support: CSV files are automatically updated and new options to flatten items and group them before saving to file system. Example:

   memory.save('ultimatum.csv', {
       // Merge items together.
       flatten: true,
       // One row per player..
       flattenByGroup: 'player',
       // Adds updates to same file for every round.
       updatesOnly: true         
   });

3. Improved reconnect support: improved default reconnection mechanism:

   • role and partner automatically set,
   • default reconnect callback resends game messages from same step.

4. Client Timer API reworked: simpler and more powerful API to create random events, including probabilistic events. Example:

   node.timer.random(3000, 7000).prob(0.2).done();

5. New Game methods: new Game methods to get references to current stage/step id and number and to compare it against other ids or game-stage objects: isStep, isStage, isRound, isWidgetStep, getStepId, getStageId.

6. Improved Widgets: several improvements including:

   • Auto-scroll into widgets requiring user action,
   • Required widgets which are still requiring user action can now block the node.done procedure also outside of widget-steps,
   • New method: Widget.isActionRequired,
   • New risk-elicitation widget: Bomb method.

7. Server improvements:

   • Port can be specified via command-line.
   • GameRoom API extended with new method updateWin and more options available for method computeBonus.
   • Channels can be disabled in channel.settings.js file.

8. Miscellaneous:

   • Role, partner, and session automatically added to every database entry.
   • Window: auto-scroll up when loading a new frame.
   • Errors messages from clients are automatically printed to console.

Contributors

• Stefano Balietti ste@nodegame.org

Special thanks to Arjen Stolk for bug reporting and features discussion.

Next Topics

Next: Migrating to v7