Struggling to get off the ground with a browser multiplayer game, looking for advice

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  • Socket.io

    Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)

    • It seems like you could abstract away like lobbies, game server instancing, connections between clients, socket.io code between client and servers, reconnection logic and such entirely game agnostically and just have the actual packet data be what changes as well as the game service itself on the server. So maybe it would be best to put all that together with a very simple game first (like blackjack with tables and chat or something) then upgrade?

  • colyseus

    ⚔ Multiplayer Framework for Node.js

    • 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

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