Online Multiplayer JavaScript Game Tutorial - Full Course

Before crafting this course, I had no experience with programming multiplayer games. Yet, this video encapsulates countless hours of research, presenting you with a consolidated resource so you can avoid having to find everything on your own.

While there might be some inaccuracies, I'm confident that the knowledge you'll gain is substantial. Dive in and enjoy!

0:00 Game setup
10:13 Connect and disconnect players
53:27 Add unique attributes
1:18:25 Player movement
2:17:56 Projectiles and collision
3:35:49 Leaderboard
4:06:14 Unique usernames
4:25:29 Push live to Akamai
4:47:38 Domain name setup
5:02:06 Game polish
5:41:19 Enhanced interpolation

[ChrisCourses]

PS: I was going to use Linode for this video regardless, but I reached out to their team and they said they'd love to support the video / channel—no obligations or strings attached. Thanks all for the support! 🚀

[heli_]

Incredible, only part way in but really like how you explain everything. It’s really helpful for someone starting out trying to get good at JavaScript and web stuff. Also fun when it’s related to making a game

[the_kid]

Hey Chris, I don't know if you read comments but I just wanted to tell you - Thank you so much. Here I am, showing off my family my javascript skills and how short it took me to be able to create all this. But in the end, it's all because you put this much time and effort into creating each of your fascinating videos, and because I was fortunate enough to find those videos. You truly are a life changer, and this world would've been a worse place if you weren't there. I am incredibly excited to see what you come up with for your next course.
Once again, thank you.

[treckstar]

Wow I can see you put a ton of work into this one, nice job. Can't wait to check it out

[imadsaddik]

Thank you Chris, I really enjoyed this tutorial.

[somedood]

thank you so much for making this, I learned so much about game and web development! keep doing what you're doing

[FloorMann]

This video is probably the whole reason I got into multiplayer game development, he explained every concept that I needed to make my first game. One question, can you make a tutorial on turning that 3D video game that I forgot what you named it into a multiplayer game? My current 3D multiplayer game is too buggy.

[PersonalTrainerWilson]

the timing of this video posting could not have been better for my project. Thank you.

[jatinsaini]

Hey, awesome tutorial. But I guess you could have shown a real example for the need of server reconciliation by increasing the tick rate of server and keeping the fronend tick rate lower at 15 ms only to show the client side player location update to match up with the server which you did later to show player interpolation.

[anilchhetri]

Nice job very helpful video. It will be very helpful to create that Pokemon game as multiplayer.

[haineken]

Hey, very nice video and everything very well explained, but i wanted to add a database element to save best players with high score and show them in another leadboard. If you can make video on it i would be very happy.

[wilsonbridgett]

Great content, thanks for creating. Whats the task list you use to track progress.

[evgenii.zaikin]

Hello! Thank you for powerful game guides! How do you think this is good idea convert html5 game (writing on native technologies) to mobile game with Cordova?

[prfab]

Hello, that was a good tutorial, but unfortunatly you didn't talk about lag compensation, but still it was really interresting ! Good job

[ayaal_assi]

you are perfect!, i mean it, could you do some choices games? that's kind of impossible

[Holphana]

You can drag the dieectory into terminal?!?!? holy cow, huge gamechanger. I get so much anxiety making sure thats right.

[ferroisss]

Thank you for this video! I was just wondering, would it be possible to make this game mobile-friendly? Thanks in advance Chris

Furthermore, for the player movement part, the client can maliciously emit more ("keydown") events to increase the speed of their movement, there should be some form of checking in the backend to keep the speed in check

[HakimNeezam]

can i watch this video only or do I have to watch how you make the game first then watch this one

[lakshman]

Hi Chris

Will you participate in js13k games this year?

[Molhamkn-GamesXEdits]

thank u for putting ur time and effort into this video, i did everything except the hosting thing, and i want to run the game on a localhost which is listening on port 3000, but when i start it, it doesnt work, i can put a username but it wont do anything, i dont know what file im supposed to run on local host, what do i do in terminal? node backend.js? or what file do i node?