A multiplayer 3D Ultimate Frisbee sandbox! Now play Ultimate with your friends across the world :D
The project was built with the intention of creating a game engine from scratch, implementing components including:
- Asset loading & cache management
- Character controllers and input controllers
- Creating animations and models using Blender
- Frisbee disc path trajectories
- Animation transitions with FSMs (finite state machines)
- HUDs and user interaction
- Camera movement and panning
A test run in an Ultimate set play:
The app is currently hosted on Heroku here, but dependency issues have caused it to shut down the server.
In order host a local server instance, first the node_modules must be installed, based on the dependencies in package.json.
npm install
Hosting a local server (localhost:8000) can be done by running any of the following:
node index.js
npm run start
nodemon
To host over LAN, edit the index.js file with a specific IP and port, and verify that it is accessible over your network.
Player movement and controls allow different kinds of movement, with and without the disc. This section is always in progress, with creating more animations and implementing transitions.
Examples of player movement:
The app is built using Node.js at the backend.
The frontend is implemented using HTML/CSS and JS.
Game mechanics are implemented in pure JavaScript and the 3d library used is THREE.js.
Animations and character models have been edited using Blender.
Rigs and animations downloaded from Mixamo.