Title: HappyFunTimes Development Description: Working on HappyFunTimes itself (not happyfuntimes games)
This is a few tips for working on HappyFunTimes itself. If you're making a game there's probably no reason for you to read this document. This is mostly notes to myself and whoever else is working on HappyFunTimes itself.
Setting HFT_RENDEZVOUS_URL to a URL lets you specific a custom rendezvous server.
The default url is http://happyfuntimes.net/api/inform2. You'd set this if you
want to run your own so that you can tell users go to for example mygame.com instead
of happyfuntimes.net.
The source for the rendezvous server is here.
This is for dev/debugging only
HFT_RENDEZVOUS_IP is Used to specify the IP address to report to the rendevous server. Normally the IP address
is derived from the network connection. The rendezvous server generally sees your NAT router's
ip. But, when testing locally, with happyfuntimes and the rendezvous server running on the same
machine it will just see 127.0.0.1 as the ip. So, it will record that some system at 127.0.0.1
is hosting games at say 192.168.0.10. You then try to connect by going to 192.168.0.10:1337 from
another machine on your local net who's IP address is 192.168.0.11. Because you're not both
behind NAT the rendezvous server sees different IP addresses for you and your test machine.
That's the long way of saying you need to set HFT_RENDEZVOUS_IP to the same IP address
as your test machine / phone if you want to test a local rendezvous server.
HFT_RENDEZVOUS_IP=192.168.0.11 HFT_RENDEZVOUS_URL=http://localhost:1337/api/inform2 npm start