A (very) simple game to showcase the power of HTML5 + WebSockets and the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) APIs within an application.
It is based on the mozilla-festival repository by Rob Hawkes (@robhawkes).
The server side code is written in Node.js with Socket.IO.
I used the AWS SDK for Node.js to log client connections/disconnections in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queue.
The game is using WebSockets for bidirectional communication between clients (i.e. browsers) and server. I used Redis (managed by ElastiCache) for session data.
You can use the accelerometer of a (mobile) device to move. You can check if your device supports “DeviceOrientation” events here.
This is a work-in-progress as I'm going to add other sample features in the (near?) future.
The latest version is currently deployed here (I used AWS Elastic Beanstalk):
http://justagame.elasticbeanstalk.com
Any feedback is welcome! :)
Copyright (c) 2013 Danilo Poccia, http://blog.danilopoccia.net
This code is licensed under the The MIT License (MIT). Please see the LICENSE file that accompanies this project for the terms of use.