In this episode we step into the networking world in our Tetris series and make it a multiplayer game with support for rooms.
Try it out at http://tetris.pomle.com/ - open the web site and then share the URL with a friend to play together.
Starting point can be cloned from https://github.com/meth-meth-method/tetris-network-multiplayer/tree/5543847f98ce664ac97f60ceefc4246e4d395a5b
We will look at
* Set and Map data types.
* WebSocket in the browser and in Node.js.
* making a custom Event lib.
* HTML template tag.
* Serializing/Deserializing with JSON.
To follow this tutorial you should be comfortable in coding JavaScript in both a browser and Node environment and be familiar with previous parts in series.
Part 1 - Writing a Tetris game in JavaScript
https://youtu.be/H2aW5V46khA
Part 2 - Rewriting Tetris to 2-Player
https://youtu.be/JJo5JpbuTTs
Source code for finished project:
https://github.com/meth-meth-method/tetris-network-multiplayer
Music:
Demoscene Time Machine
http://demoscenetimemachine.com
