My proposal is to create a multiplayer version of the game Snake that would behave much like the online game slither.io. I would create a game such that it would involve a client server relationship and would require optimizing the game loop and creating additional rules and graphics for the game to make it more user friendly and more like a production ready version of the game. This might also require using native GUI libraries to get the best looks for each operating system, making executables seperate for each system that have a nice GUI for playing either multiplayer or single player, changing the skin of the snake, etc. The server will also have a configurable portion consisting of a json file for simple configuration.
- Add multiplayer with TCP connections
- Possibly using JSON to pass data between client and server
- JSON to conigure things on the server on startup
- Food Spawn rate
- Length increase for each food
- Size of map
- speed of snakes?
- Create a stand alone server to host the game on something like AWS
- Adjust the game mechanics for more of a sliterio feel
- Make the game go beyond the boundaries of the window
- Make a minimap that displays locations of the players
- Be able to name your snake and have that name be associated with scoreboard
- Add a nicer GUI with options for adding name, starting server
- Make the food line up with the boundaries (personal OCD)
- Make the snakes show orientation or eyes or something to distinguish them
- Create a seperate server executable that is configurable that can be run
- I will use whatever game design + networking things I can find on the internet
- Youtube channel that I have been studying C++ off of called TheChernoProject
- Network programming
- Speed & Optimization
- How to use native GUIs
- How to make a shippable game
- November 9th
- Get a server on a port then connect with another process
- November 16th
- Get two computers to communicate together
- Parse JSON and output the key:value pair to ensure that it works
- November 23rd
- Write a data format for world data, storing snakes and food locations
- Write a data format for configuration, one for client, one for server
- Host the server code on an AWS instance
- November 30th
- Ensure the tickrate of the server is suitable for the game engine
- Write unit tests testing the network, most likely testing localhost
- Create an interface to write and read data from the game engine to net
- December 7th
- Get the client for the game written such that movement and graphics work
- December 14th
- Get the server code setup and working so that the backend logic works
- Get two snakes in the same game together