Comments on: bomberman technology preview

By: rzwitserloot

rzwitserloot — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:24:02 +0000

… yes, because whinging on about some specific framework is ‘real super-sexy’. I know some Software Technology students that might be able to give you a few pointers on this.

Speaking of ’sexy’, how would you go about sending data asynchronously FROM browser TO server. The other way around is easy (comet). browser to server? I’m not sure. XmlHttpRequest works in chunks which is probably too slow for sending through every movement made in bomberman.

By: Alper

Alper — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:13:44 +0000

Or if you want to rack up the real super-sexy nerd points you could use Twisted to scale the server.

By: rzwitserloot

rzwitserloot — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:48:41 +0000

I'll see if boaz wants to make some sprites, it's a good idea. As far as the comet approach, that's a whole 'nother ballpark. But certainly a very interesting ballpark. I'll consider it. I first want to dive into web frameworks, I still haven't found the one I truely like. PHP isn't it, but it'll do for something like tipjar. This comet stuff, I don't think it'll scale without something like RESTlet.

By: Alper

Alper — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:07:41 +0000

Next step would of course be to write some kind of Comet approach with long lived connections to make it multiplayer. That would totally rock.

By: Cristiano Betta

Cristiano Betta — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:55:49 +0000

Have Boaz make some sprites, that’s actually something he CAN do

By: rzwitserloot

rzwitserloot — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:40:11 +0000

Sprites are shamelessly ripped from spritesets and screenshots from the original.

I haven’t found any bad guy sprites yet though so that’s a bit of problem. I do have sprites of the poor fellow exploding.

Interesting facet: It appears that the bomb explosions ‘alpha’ themselves out of existence. They don’t; that’s just an image that looks that way. I tried doing actual alpha, using context.globalAlpha, but this slows the entire game down to an absolute crawl. Yet checking all squares and rapidly drawing hundreds of images a second is no problem whatsoever.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:28:03 +0000

Impressive! Even with nice sprites