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Ask HN: How do they build browser based multiplayer io games?

Post by bnormative » Sun, Aug 04, 2024, 2:38 PM UTC

there are lots of games like www.voxiom.io, www.diep.io or www.agar.io where you play multiplayer games within the browser and they are sometimes even built in a 3d environment.

How do they actually build these games ? Is it really based on html/css ?

Re: Ask HN: How do they build browser based multiplayer io games?

Post by curious_curios » Sun, Aug 04, 2024, 2:45 PM UTC

Yep, it’s based on html/css/javascript usually. With things like WebGL you have a full 3D rendering engine in the browser. They’ll often use WebRTC or web sockets for game updates from the server/other players.

There’s a list of HTML game engines if you want to dig deeper: https://html5gameengine.com/

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