Making Multiplayer Online Games (The Book (only))
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Completed on 2020-10-19
About the Book
This book includes game design and implementation chapters using either Phaser JavaScript Gaming Frameworks v2.6.2, CE, v3.16+, AND any other JS Gaming Frameworks for the front- and back-end development. It is a Book of 5 Rings Game Design - "HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL". It further analyzes several freely available back-end servers and supporting middleware (such as PHP, Python, and several CMS). This game design workbook takes you step-by-step into the creation of Massively Multiplayer Online Game as a profitable business adventure - none of this theoretical, local workstation proof of concept! It uses any popular JavaScript Gaming Framework -- not just limited to Phaser.JS!! -- on the client-side browser interfacing into a unique, server-side, application using WebSockets. It is the only book of its kind since January 2017 for Phaser MMO Gaming Framework!
- Part I leads you through the world of networks, business consideration, MMoG analysis and setting up your studio workshop. I have 40 years of networking career experience in highly sensitive (i.e., Government Embassies) data communications. I am a certified Cisco Academy Instructor and have taught networking, networking security, game design/development, and software engineering for the past 14 years at the college level.
- Part II Guides you into Multi-player Online Game architecture contrasted to normal single-player games. This lays the foundation for Multi-Player Game Prototypes and reviews a missing aspect in current MMoG development not seen in many online tutorials and example code.
- Part III contains 3 chapters focused on production and development for the client-side code, client-proxy, server-side code, and MMoG app. This content sets the foundation for what many Phaser tutorials and Phaser Starter-Kits on the market today overlook and never tell you! Upon completion of Part III, you will have your own bespoke MMoG with integrated micro-service, and if you choose, web workers and block-chain.
- Part IV (Bonus Content) This section includes proprietary Game Rule Books and EULA source code included as a part of your book purchase. It features four (4) Game Recipes -- step-by-step instructions -- listed by complexity "1" = easiest (elementary skills) to "4" = most complex (requiring advanced skills across several IT technology disciplines). Each external “Walk-Through Tutorial” guides you in different aspects of MMoG development.
- How to migrate single-player games into a 2-player online delivery mode (not using "hot-seat")!
- How to use dynamic client-side proxy servers and migrate this game from its current single-player mode (with AI Bot) into an online 2-player mode (not using "hot-seat")!
- How to include "Asynchronous Availability" during gameplay and migrate this gameplay mode (with AI Bot) into an online "Asynchronous Availability" 3-player mode using postal mail or email game turns! The FREE game rule book will help "deconstruct" this game mechanics.
- This final external "Step-by-Step" tutorial guides us in building a complete MMoG CMS, using MOM over WebSockets for 2 to 8 participants, a membership system, game lobby, player matching services, and other various cloud-based "Back-end as a Services" (BaaS). The FREE game rule book will help "deconstruct" this game mechanics.
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List of bonus content: (Available after 95% completed) WebSocket template; OGRE game engine analyzed; IBM Microservices & Rogue Cloud; Books, charts, frameworks and tools.
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Web Sockets template
Web Socket template and test boilerplate.
OGRE game engine analyzed
A formal study on the OGRE open-source game engine (64 pages)
IBM Microservices
Building interactive MMoG using IBM Cloud Services (6.4MB) and "What is serverless" 56-page pamphlet from O'Reilly books.
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worksheets and templates used found in this book. (14.3MB)
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Reader Testimonials
Carl Smotricz
B.S. Computer Science & Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Maryland (Verified Purchase & read)
The author knows his stuff about networking technologies. So this book presents a wealth of info on how to connect game clients and servers over networks. It's a bit too deep for some readers! But for the more practically minded, it advocates recent technologies and provides a lot of links to toolkits, libraries, and other tutorials. Many gaming how-to books give the impression that the author wants to make a quick buck, but this book feels like the author genuinely wants to make us smarter.
Table of Contents
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Distribution Permission
- Supporting website
- Disclosures
- Disclaimer
- Forwards
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About this Workbook
- Links and References
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Workbook Content
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How to Read & Use this workbook:
- Viewing the eBook’s Source Code:
- Who should use this workbook?
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How to Read & Use this workbook:
- Your newly obtained skills…
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Game Design System™
- Game Studio - Book Series
- Game Studio - Online Courses
- “Making Browser Games” - Books Series
- “Making Browser Games” Series - online Courses
- Programming Courses
- “Walk-Thru Tutorial” Series - Online Courses
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Distribution Permission
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Part I: Network Concepts and Design
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1 Business Considerations
- 1.1 Formal Business Launch Required?
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1.2 Common Marketing Sense
- Building Desk-Tops or Web-apps? (Business Philosophy)
- Find Similar Games (Competitors)
- Key Features (Matching the Competition)
- Key Differentiation & Unique Features (Setting Us Apart)
- Understanding the Block-chain Business Model in Gaming
- 1.3 New Dog, Old Tricks?
- 1.4 Generating Game Ideas & Mechanics
- 1.5 Copyrights & EULA
- 1.6 Chapter Summary
- 1.7 Chapter Foot Notes
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2 Building a Game Studio Workshop
- 2.1 Workstation Set-up Environment
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2.2 Development Tools
- Text Editor
- IntelXDK (deprecated)
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2.3 Project File Structure
- My Project Recommendations
- 2.4 Summary
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3 Networking Basics
- 3.1 Network Foundation Inventory
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3.2 Deeper Dive: Testing MMoGs Locally??
- Hot-seat MMoG Demos
- 3.3 Network Relationships
- 3.4 Network Concerns
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3.5 Network Transport Protocols Overview
- Protocols Defined
- Layer 4 UDP vs. TCP
- The Way We Were . . .
- New Kid on the Block
- Deeper Dive: WebSocket Frame
- 3.6 Chapter Summary
- 3.7 Chapter Foot Notes
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1 Business Considerations
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Part II: MMoG Architecture
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4 MMoG Engine Analysis
- 4.1 What is a Game Engine?
- 4.2 To “B”uild or not to “B”uild, that’s the question!
- 4.3 Purpose of XML and JSON
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4.4 MMoG engine Criteria:
- Here’s my list and chart: (not in order of preference)
- 4.5 Server-side Research
- 4.6 Vetting our candidates
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4.7 Node.js vs. WebSockets vs. Socket.io
- Socket.IO bloated overhead!
- 4.8 Final Analysis
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4.9 Server-less Alternatives
- Online Development — Single Provider Option
- Deploy Using Various Cloud Microservices
- Build a Vertical
- 4.10 Chapter Summary
- 4.11 Chapter Foot Notes:
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5 MMoG Application Architecture
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5.1 Comparing Single- to Multi-Player Games
- Deeper Dive: Using Web Workers
- Deeper Dive: Await and Promises
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5.2 Differences in MMoG Games?
- Player Interactions
- Technology Architecture
- Deeper Dive: Ethereum Distributed App (DApp) Games
- Live testing of MMoGs!
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5.3 Technical Aspects
- Writing Source Code Differently: “How vs What!”
- Construction Sequence and Regimen
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5.4 Encoding Formats for Game Turns
- MMoG App API - RPC or MOM?
- 5.5 Deployment Concerns
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5.6 Persistent Data structures
- Deeper Dive: 3rd Option for Real-time MMoG
- Distributed Database (sharding)
- MMoG Database Examples
- Deeper Dive: Learn from the Best — UnReal Engine
- Deeper Dive: Learn from the Best — Unity Multiplayer Networking
- Deeper Dive: Learn from the Best — IBM Microservices
- Additional Information
- Deeper Dive: Learn from the Best — Google GRITS
- Deeper Dive: Learn from the Best — Rob Hawkes
- 5.7 New Tricks
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5.8 Managing Network Transports
- Skipping Rope! (Fixed Time Intervals)
- Adobe RTMP and RTMFP
- 5.9 Availability
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5.10 PBM³ Technology
- Managing Time-line Models
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5.11 Too Hot, Too Cold, Just right! … where & what
- Deployment Options
- 5.12 Chapter Summary
- 5.13 Chapter Foot Notes
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5.1 Comparing Single- to Multi-Player Games
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4 MMoG Engine Analysis
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Part III: Production & Development
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6 Client-side Foundation
- 6.1 Testing Your Browser
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6.2 WebSocket Protocol Handshake
- Deeper Dive: WebSocket API
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6.3 Sample Source Code: Client-side WebSocket
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Step #1: Game
indexpage - Step #2: Generate Event handlers
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Step #1: Game
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6.4 Security Concerns
- MMoG Protection
- Deeper Dive: WebSocket Security
- Deeper Dive: “Sticky Load Balancing”
- Use of <iframe>
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6.5 One Last thing
- Smart (thick) vs. Dumb (thin)
- 6.6 Chapter Summary
- 6.7 Chapter Foot Notes
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7 Server-side Foundation
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7.1 Building a Socket Server
- Server Requirement Considerations
- Deeper Dive: Measure Network Latency
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7.2 Server Pages
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Code Review
index.php -
Review
demo/server.phpContent
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Code Review
- 7.3 Where’s Phaser!?
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7.4 Extending Our Operations
- Deeper Dive: The CMS Game Shell
- Deeper Dive: When to use the game shell model
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7.5 CMS — Server-side Frameworks
- Index Page (Non-Traditional Method)
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7.6 CodeIgniter / Phaser Integrated CMS
- High Score Services
- Membership Login
- 7.7 Back-end Administration
- 7.8 Chapter Summary
- 7.9 Chapter References
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7.1 Building a Socket Server
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8 MMoG App API Engine
- 8.1 Building a MMoG App APIs
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8.2 Game Turn Orders
- Creating MMoG API Prototypes — 4-Step method
- C2S GTOs Samples
- Deeper Dive: JSON Microdata Format
- Client-side Proxy Server
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8.3 Game Turn Responses
- Deeper Dive: Real-time MMoG Design
- S2C GTRs Samples
- 8.4 Using Horizontal Micro-services
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8.5 Modeling from Others MMoG Contributors
- Lessons Learned the “Hard-way”
- 8.6 Chapter Summary
- 8.7 Chapter References
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6 Client-side Foundation
- Part IV: Step-by-Step Tutorials
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Appendix
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More Resources
- JavaScript Garden
- Additional Content Appendices
- Other resources:
- Selling your Game Assets
- Appendix: Making WebXR games!
- Appendix: Online Game Development
- Appendix: Phaser III Plugins
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Appendix: “How to Start a WebSocket”
- Testing Your Browser
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WebSocket Protocol Handshake
- Deeper Dive: WebSocket API
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Sample Source Code: Client-side WebSocket
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Step #1: Game
indexpage - Step #2: Generate Event handlers
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Step #1: Game
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