Airhockey multiplayer with gRPC and GO

Simple standalone app of airhockey fully implemented in go and gRPC using ebiten

Setup

Requirements

• Go 1.16 or newer
• protobuf 3
• github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate

How to run

• In the root folder run go mod tidy

• Windows

  • Run .\generate.bat
  • Start the server

• Linux/MacOs

  • Rename the file generate.bat to generate.sh
  • Run sh generate.sh

• Run server(.exe) and client(.exe)

• Enjoy!

Debug

• On the client press F6 to show the collisions and enable logging

Showcase

Physics

The prototype is provided with a very rudimentary collision system. It allows the disk to be pushed around, collide with the players and the walls

Network replication

The prototype is capable of multiplayer and replication. If the server is hosted online, multiple devices can join the same session. The communication is implemented with grpc