nodeGame

Fast, scalable JavaScript for large-scale, online, multiplayer, real-time games
and experiments.

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The Good parts

- Open source and open standard (HTML5)
- Modular framework (server / client / window / widgets / games)
- Low / medium level of programming required
- Powerful API
- Integrated
NDDB
Javascript database
- Server can run multiple games at the same time
- Powerful and customizible waiting rooms
- Monitor interface
- Works on mobile devices and tablets
- Bots (for playing) and Phantoms (for testing)
- Installation is required only for the server, clients just need their browser windows
- Integrates smoothly with other libraries (e.g. jQuery, D3.js, etc.)
and web services, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk

Quick Start

nodeGame comes with a default game taken from the academic literature
of game theory. It is called the
Ultimatum game. To play
it follows the steps:


1. Download the latest version of node.js for
your platform
2. Download the latest version of git for
your platform
3. Download installer, and install nodegame: node nodegame-installer
4. Enter installation directory.
5. Start the server with the command: node launcher.js
6. Open one tab pointing to localhost:8080
7. Select Ultimatum game
8. Open more tabs, or start a bot through the waiting room interface
7. Check the monitor interface at
localhost:8080/ultimatum/monitor

Documentation

Complete documentation is available in the nodeGame
wiki.

License

MIT