Deer Game

Deer game is a semestral project for CMSC 135 (Computer Networking) that applies some networking concepts. This was done with the use of Websockets to implement a Multiplayer game with low latency and real time updates for all connected players.

It follows simple game mechanics. Become a deer and fight others to get the most points before the time runs out. Please see Installation section to deploy the game on your own machines, and go to How to play for the full game mechanics.

Features

• Server can handle multiple simulatenous multiplayer games running at the same time.
• Technically, no limit on the number of players who can join a single game.
• Clean and Intuitive UI

Installation

Go to root of the project, then

npm i

once finished, follow these

How to start development

npm run dev

if theres nothing running in port 5173, the game should be on localhost:5173

to host it in a network, instead of npm run dev, you use

npm run dev -- --host

same for the one above but now, you can access the game if connected to the same network as the machine. you should be able to see 192.168.x.x:5173 <-- this is the link to the game on any devices

Building the game for production

separate terminals for server and client

Note: you have to do this everytime you are deploying with a specifc wifi connection. You cannot build this with UP STUDENT wifi and still expect the build to run on UP AP1

Server

npm run build:backend

npm run start:backend

Client

npm run build

if you want to preview the production state of the game.

npm run preview -- --host