Strepkills

Making a multiplayer game

• Player controlled avatar
• Eliminating latency/delay
• Mind-blowing Gameplay

WebSockets

A communications protocol

Provides full-duplex communication channels.

Guarantees order of delivery for packets.

ActionCable

ActionCable seamlessly integrates WebSockets with Rails

Provides a client-side JavaScript framework and a server-side Ruby framework

Two sockets one connection

Client socket  ———————————  Server socket

123.52.412.2:1337                                     youtube.com:80

IP address:Port number ——————— Domain:Port number

Rubyracer

Enables JavaScript inside Ruby

Manipulates JavaScript objects and functions from Ruby

Rails

To make a hub for multiple games 

Easy to add authentication and deploy to Heroku

Integration with Postgres

The key to success

WebSockets Teamwork

• Excellent board diagrams
• Clear communication
• Efficient delegation of tasks

Challenges

• No idea how web sockets worked
• Eliminating latency and avatar delay
• Running JS in Ruby
• Breaking and remaking the game
• Hackers

Break. Fix. Repeat.

strepsils.herokuapp.com/game

Thank you for playing

Keran

Tim

Rhys

Varun

Xin

Stalk us on GitHub- https://github.com/Xin00163/mmog