Gaming

Articles about multiplayer game development, from player state sync to social features like chat.

GamingJun 29, 2013

GenCar.co: Multiplayer Genetic Algorithm 2D Cars

We’ve updated our SDKs, and this code is now deprecated. Good news is we’ve written a comprehensive guide to building a multiplayer game. Check it out! Around the PubNub office, we’re always sharing our gaming high scores with each other, whether it’s TrackPad Destroyer, Lightweight...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
GamingMay 31, 2013

Real-time Stats for Candy Box

We like games here at PubNub, but not as much as we like real-time. Combine the two, and you’ve got pure mega-awesome. During the PubNub Hackathon, I took a popular text adventure game called Candy Box, and updated its stats page to provide a real-time overview of the global game real-time stats....
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
GamingMay 10, 2013

Lightweight Multiplayer HTML5 Games with PubNub and melonJS

We’ve updated our SDKs, and this code is now deprecated. Good news is we’ve written a comprehensive guide to building a multiplayer game. Check it out! In my quest to change the world, I’ve been experimenting with an HTML5 game engine to push the limits of the browser as a platform...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
GamingSep 28, 2012

xkcd HTML5 Canvas MMO WebSocket Scaling with PubNub

Hello all hackers from HackerNews.  We noticed a new MMO was released by n01se and xkcd yesterday (September 26th, 2012) with multiple users flying around with a balloon figure.  If you got stuck, you can click your balloon guy and turn into a ghost to seamlessly move through the landscape unhindered...
Stephen Blum
Stephen Blum
CTO, PubNub
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GamingFeb 1, 2012

StackHack: Massively Multiplayer WebGL Game

We’ve updated our SDKs, and this code is now deprecated. Good news is we’ve written a comprehensive guide to building a multiplayer game. Check it out! We recently gave the multiplayer WebGL game StackHack a major facelift, and we recommend checking out that blog post here: Making Interactive...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
GamingNov 23, 2011

A PubNub-Powered Game for ImpactJS

We’ve updated our SDKs, and this code is now deprecated. Good news is we’ve written a comprehensive guide to building a multiplayer game. Check it out! ImpactJS is an HTML5 mobile and web games framework for building games quickly. PubNub has the ability to add Multi player Connectivity for...
Stephen Blum
Stephen Blum
CTO, PubNub
GamingNov 12, 2011

Corona SDK Multiplayer Networking API for Mobile Games

We’ve updated our SDKs, and this code is now deprecated. Good news is we’ve written a comprehensive guide to building a multiplayer game. Check it out! Enable multiplayer networking with your mobile games with three functions: Init PubNub Multiplayer Object Call Subscribe() to begin receiving...
Stephen Blum
Stephen Blum
CTO, PubNub
GamingNov 12, 2011

Tutorial: How To Build HTML5 Multiplayer Game Foundation

We’ve updated our SDKs, and this code is now deprecated. Good news is we’ve written a comprehensive guide to building a multiplayer game. Check it out! This is an HTML5 multiplayer game foundation tutorial. This page is the foundation for creating your own monetizable HTML5 games and applications...
Stephen Blum
Stephen Blum
CTO, PubNub