Show HN: Simple Open Source 3D Online Multiplayer Battle Game Using Node.js

I appreciate that there is a certain sense of accomplishment that comes with doing something 'from scratch' but why wouldn't you use https://phaser.io/ or any of the other libraries/frameworks for HTML5 development? It's built for almost exactly this type of game. Does anyone know if there is a framework for turn based strategy for HTML5? Phaser seems to have more of a real time and physics focus.

Re: Show HN: Simple Open Source 3D Online Multiplayer Battle Game Using Node.js

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Post by andypants » Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 12:59 PM UTC

mberger wrote: post #7

I appreciate that there is a certain sense of accomplishment that comes with doing something 'from scratch' but why wouldn't you use https://phaser.io/ or any of the other libraries/frameworks for HTML5 development? It's built for almost exactly this type of game. Does anyone know if there is a framework for turn based strategy for HTML5? Phaser seems to have more of a real time and physics focus.

Phaser looks like it's for 2d games, not 3d.

Re: Show HN: Simple Open Source 3D Online Multiplayer Battle Game Using Node.js

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Post by mawburn » Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 1:09 PM UTC

mberger wrote: post #7

I appreciate that there is a certain sense of accomplishment that comes with doing something 'from scratch' but why wouldn't you use https://phaser.io/ or any of the other libraries/frameworks for HTML5 development? It's built for almost exactly this type of game. Does anyone know if there is a framework for turn based strategy for HTML5? Phaser seems to have more of a real time and physics focus.

Phaser is just an all purpose 2D game engine, what kind of game you create doesn't matter. It gives you a lot of tools and functionality you're probably going to end up creating yourself if you used something that's just a rendering engine like Pixi.js instead. Phaser OP didn't really build this from "scratch" in the strict sense, they used Three.js. This is kind of the 3D equivalent of Pixi.

Re: Show HN: Simple Open Source 3D Online Multiplayer Battle Game Using Node.js

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Post by onion2k » Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 2:54 PM UTC

andypants wrote: post #8

mberger wrote: post #7

I appreciate that there is a certain sense of accomplishment that comes with doing something 'from scratch' but why wouldn't you use https://phaser.io/ or any of the other libraries/frameworks for HTML5 development? It's built for almost exactly this type of game. Does anyone know if there is a framework for turn based strategy for HTML5? Phaser seems to have more of a real time and physics focus.

Phaser looks like it's for 2d games, not 3d.

It's rendered in 3D, but the physics are 2D.