Multiplayer HTML5 Osmos

A tech demo inspired by Osmos. For more information read the article here: http://smus.com/multiplayer-html5-games-with-node

Running

• Install Node
• Run npm install socket.io
• Run node server/server.js
• Open client/index.html - for example on Mac open client/index.html
• Profit

Compatibility

Osmus has been tested on Chrome 13 as well as iPads on iOS 4+.

• Known issues with Chrome 14+ (due to a different Web Sockets spec)
• Known issues in Firefox 5+ (you can still observe)

TODO

• Switch to require.js in browser and separate game.js into components
• Resizing viewports
• Support binary sockets
• Compress network format
• Multiple rooms