colyseus VS Game-Networking-Resources

If you don't want to dive deep into backend then https://colyseus.io/ might also be an option.

Since you already know Javascript you could try to use some existing server framework at first to avoid having to do everything from scratch. https://github.com/colyseus/colyseus

Try this Node.js based server framework https://github.com/colyseus/colyseus

https://colyseus.io/ (Authoritative server, that works with many engines JavaScript/Phaser/Unity/Haxe/Defold)

If you want web based you'll likely use Javascript for frontend/client. Check if this JS game server framework has what you need https://github.com/colyseus/colyseus

Also check Colyseus. Bit similar multiplayer server framework and built on top of Node.js/TypeScript. https://github.com/colyseus/colyseus

The above project uses a Node.js authoritative game state called Colyseus (https://github.com/colyseus/colyseus) which handles the state synchronisation between clients and server.

We use Colyseus for this. Pretty easy and open source too. https://colyseus.io/

https://github.com/MFatihMAR/Game-Networking-Resources (This is a list maintained by someone else, and it has some amazing things in it, and far more technical leaning than what I maintain).

When you play any kind of real-time online multiplayer game, it is physically impossible for all players to have the same view of the world. As a result, approximations have to be made, for example by extrapolating other player positions. There is plenty of research on this subject, and most modern games do a pretty good job. But when you add a second local player, things get a lot more complicated.

This collection of links is a gold mine, it’s how I learned almost all that I know: https://github.com/MFatihMAR/Game-Networking-Resources

Game network programming mega compilation.

Looks like you are trying to find a Multiplayer solution, take a look at this guy's repo, he have a lot of resources about the topic https://github.com/MFatihMAR/Game-Networking-Resources

Are there games that you could find and analyze? I wonder if old school games (or their multiplayer lobby servers) would be easy targets (I'm pretty sure a buddy said the Tribes 2 server protocol was really basic, but I could be very wrong.) A list of resources I found: https://github.com/MFatihMAR/Game-Networking-Resources

https://github.com/MFatihMAR/Game-Networking-Resources (This is a list maintained by someone else, and it has some amazing things in it, and far more technical leaning than what I maintain).

As this is a "side hobby project", and not your main thing, you're probably better off making your own server (but use a networking library and another other helpful libraries you can find). A starting point: https://github.com/MFatihMAR/Game-Networking-Resources

Helpful resource: https://github.com/MFatihMAR/Game-Networking-Resources

https://github.com/MFatihMAR/Game-Networking-Resources (This is a list maintained by someone else, and it has some amazing things in it, and far more technical leaning than what I maintain).