[Feature] Multiplayer Support

[AttAditya]

Multiplayer Support

Check Out

• Socket Server Code (AttAditya/tlpp-multiplayer-server)
• Socker Server Deployment (wss://tlpp-mp.attaditya.space)

Glimpse of this PR

• Refactored Modules for Multiplayer Support
• Added Support for Multiple Planes to be Rendered at once
• Converted Plane.js file to Plane Module which can be extensible for adding new Plane Models in future
• Layering of Planes and Canvases for better and easier understanding of depth while gameplay
• Multiplayer Module to handle multiplayer support
• Created Socket Server
• Hosted Socket Server and connected in the game

Previews

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• Demo Video (Earlier Version)

New Commands

• MULTIPLAYER CONNECT: Connects to the multiplayer server, and brings you to room lobby.
• MULTIPLAYER DISCONNECT: Disconnects from the multiplayer server.
• JOINROOM <ROOM_ID>: Joins the multiplayer room with id ROOM_ID.

Tasks

• Refactor modules to allow multiplayer support
• Planes module for spawning multiple planes at once
• Manage proper moving and altitude changes for each plane
• Create Socket Server to allow multiplayer
• Connect Socket Server with Game
• Update player environment on joining room
  • Terrain (Room Seed Based)
  • Clouds (Room Seed Based)
  • Time Cycle (Room Timestamp Based)
• Allow multiplayer to be accessed on and only on player's control
• Socket Server Optimization

Testing

• Local Testing
  • Game
  • Socket Server
• Tunnel Testing
  • Game
  • Socket Server
• Production Testing
  • Game (GitHub Pages)
  • Socket Server (Render)

Notes

• On testing (2 players), it turns out:
  • Local environment has the best experience (expected)
  • Val.Town deployment does really good and provides a smooth experience
  • Railway deploment is laggy, playable to good extent but should be really good with optimized
  • Cloudflare tunnel is very laggy but still playable to minimum standards of latency, and it will require heavy optimizations in coming future
• Testing has been done:
  • 1 system 2 players
  • 2 system 2 players

Future Scoping

• Customization
  • Player name
  • Plane colors
• Show user logs of some events (like Player Joined, Player Left, etc)
• Socket Server
  • Optimize the Socket Server for reducing send events for all parties
  • Persistent Data Management of Rooms and Players
  • Convert Socket Server to stateless server for better scaling in future
• Gameplay
  • Mini Games
  • Plane Collisions
  • More Aircrafts
• Multiplayer Chats
• Location Indicators for Players