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
9. Check the monitor interface at localhost:8080/ultimatum/monitor

Documentation

Complete documentation is available in the nodeGame wiki.

License

MIT