Disclaimer: These samples are only meant to show you how to use HappyFunTimes. Specifically for controllers the class GameClient. For games the classes GameServer and NetPlayer. Everything else is just game jam quality example code. If you're going to make a real game please consider using an existing game framework or writing your own. If these examples fit your needs then by all means feel free to use, clone, or modify them. My only point is they are not neccessily showing best practices for games in JavaScript.

Some terms

controller = The code running on the player's smartphone browser (or desktop/tablet browser).

game = The code running the game on the on PC connected to some large display everyone can see.

relayserver = A node based server that passes messages to and from contollers to games.

GameClient = An object running in the controller that lets the controller send and receive messages with the game.

GameServer = An object running in the game that lets the game receive new players.

NetPlayer = An object created by the GameServer anytime a new controller joins the game. It is passed to the game in a playerconnected event. It is used to send and receive messages from an individual controller.

Here are a few random notes on the examples.

Player Names

Many of the samples support a user name. This feature is not technically part of the HappyFunTimes library but is rather just part of the samples using the library. The name is stored in a local cookie . When a controller starts it looks for the cookie and then sends the name to the game. If the game receives "" as the name it sends name back to the player. The message sent is setName in both directions, controller to game, game to controller.

The controller also sends a busy message with true when the user starts editing the name and false when they finish.

On the controller side this is mostly handled by shared code PlayerNameManager (playername.js). On the game this is handled by each game directly.

Simple

Basically the same as SuperSimple except uses normalized cooridinates and uses a canvas element to draw the game rather than HTML5 elements.

PowPow

A space wars style game. The first 6 players battle it out. If there are more than 6 players they wait in the launch queue. They collectively control a ghost ship they can use to try to kill other players so they can get back into the game.

JumpJump

A simple platformer. Players try to get the one coin.

Boomboom

A bomberman like game. One thing it shows over other games is round based control. Players joining the game have to wait for the current round to finish before they are added.

Deviceorientation

Orient a 3d ship to shoot a ball.

Demonstrates using device orientation. The game is nearly impossible to play but it least demonstrates using device orientation as well as three.js.

Simple-no-electron

Same as simple above but without electron.

Unity

For Unity examples download the HappyFunTimes plugin.