Show HN: Simple Open Source 3D Online Multiplayer Battle Game Using Node.js

[yoshiokatsuneo]

https://paiza-battle-ground.paiza-user.cloud/

[yoshiokatsuneo]

And, here is an article how I created the simple game: https://engineering.paiza.io/entry/paizacloud_online_multipl...

[webdva → yoshiokatsuneo]

Inspiring. Good work.

[warent]

Whoever "rj" is I'm "WWWWWWW...." and laughing so hard at our eternal battle

[atomical]

Kind of like bzflag?

[warent → theknarf]

A lot of good questions until the very end. Save a draft and read later before you submit an angry post

[mberger]

I appreciate that there is a certain sense of accomplishment that comes with doing something 'from scratch' but why wouldn't you use https://phaser.io/ or any of the other libraries/frameworks for HTML5 development? It's built for almost exactly this type of game. Does anyone know if there is a framework for turn based strategy for HTML5? Phaser seems to have more of a real time and physics focus.

[mawburn → mberger]

Phaser is just an all purpose 2D game engine, what kind of game you create doesn't matter. It gives you a lot of tools and functionality you're probably going to end up creating yourself if you used something that's just a rendering engine like Pixi.js instead. Phaser <=2 was built from Pixi.

OP didn't really build this from "scratch" in the strict sense, they used Three.js. This is kind of the 3D equivalent of Pixi.

[andypants → mberger]

Phaser looks like it's for 2d games, not 3d.

[onion2k → andypants]

It's rendered in 3D, but the physics are 2D.