Pro Android Web Game Apps: Using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

Chapter 12

Making Multiplayer Games

This chapter is devoted to the practical application of the skills that we have learned in the previous two chapters. The goal is to make a fully functional multiplayer Four Balls game out of the single-player version that we developed in the Chapter 3. After reading this chapter, you will know how to:

• Implement the basic multiplayer architecture
• Distribute the game logic between the client and the server
• Share the JavaScript components between the browser and Node.js
• Use Socket.IO for handling the real-time communications

We will start by looking at the anatomy of the networking game, from the challenges of a typical casual online game to the more advanced fast-action, real-time games that are likely to ...