I'm programming a multiplayer game using node.js and socket.Io and during that work I got some questions and thoughts concerning performance.
At the moment only one gameroom can be opened and the socketio server does forward basic messages like direction changes of players to the other connected clients and computes some basic game logic. Altough this works great at the moment I have some concerns how to realise this with a lot of gamerooms or "servers" like in other multiplayer games where you have a server browser with a list of different servers. As a simple aproach I would implement this with different rooms in socket.io sending messages only to sockets in the same game. But then still all messages are processed by only one socket.io server. I think latency would suffer at some point between clients. For example if you have something like this: GameRoom1 Client1 Client2 GameRoom2 Client3 Client4 ... .. then latency between Client1 and Client2 would be important, but latency between Client1 and Client3 wouldnt be that important because they dont need to message each other. My thought would be to open multiple socketio instances for each fixed number of open gamerooms. But I dont know if this is effective and how to direct the clients to the right instance. Also I dont know if latency would really be better because it would be still the same machine only with multiple instances. Another thought of mine would be to let one client be a server as a host like in other games and only register the server at a master server for the serverlist. But I havent found any realisation for this and dont think this is possible with socket.io. Surely you could make something like dedicated servers so that everyone opens his own socket.io server for the game, but I want that everyone on the website can open a new game with just a click. Also i wouldnt know how to secure others dont alter the socket.io server with some unsecure stuff. So I would like to know if there is any effective solution or some ideas or sources for this problem. Thanks in advance. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
