Multiplayer Snake Experiment

This multiplayer snake game was built to try out canvas, node.js with websockets, and coffeescript.

You can see a socket.io based version in action at http://snake.nodester.com/, but you should use Chrome or Safari to view it...

Installation

For now, this experiment is not hosted anywhere. If you want to try it out on your local machine, go through the following steps:

• Clone this repository
• Go to the folder, and run npm install
• To start the server, run coffee server.coffee
• To start a client, open index.html in a browser that support canvas and websockets, i.e. the latest version of Safari or Chrome (see Troubleshooting Section for Chrome)

Troubleshooting

Running in Chrome

Cross origin requests are only allowed for http in Chrome. Therefore, you'll need to run a local http server instead of opening the local file directly to see the client website. To do this, go to the directory you cloned this repository into and run the following command:

python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()"

You should get an output like this:

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

After starting the server, open up http://localhost:8000/ in your browser to go to the client website.

(Thanks to Peter Cooper for this advise)

Running in Firefox

Websockets is not enabled by Default in Firefox. To enable it, go through the following steps:

• Type about:config in address bar and continue by clicking “I’ll be careful, I promise”
• Set network.websocket.enabled value to true and set network.websocket.override-security-block preferences to true.