https://github.com/topheman/playground2

An experiment with socket.io and accelerometer (control your desktop with multiple mobile devices)
https://github.com/topheman/playground2

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An experiment with socket.io and accelerometer (control your desktop with multiple mobile devices)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/topheman/playground2
• Owner: topheman
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-08-07T21:25:00.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-01-11T01:17:18.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-08T00:39:39.915Z (9 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://topheman-playground.herokuapp.com/
• Size: 396 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
TOPHEMAN PLAYGROUND V2

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**This repository is DEPRECATED, please visit the new version at [topheman/playground](https://github.com/topheman/playground)**

## Intro

Try it at : [https://topheman-playground.herokuapp.com](https://topheman-playground.herokuapp.com/) (heroku instance).

Presentation : [http://slid.es/topheman/topheman-playground](http://slid.es/topheman/topheman-playground)

Once you snapped the QR-code with your phone, take control of the bouncing ball on your desktop screen, like a Wiimote, tilting your phone as you would do on a labyrinth game.

* Connect with multiple mobile devices

* Watch from multiple desktop/laptop screens

You can even use the devicemotion emulator to control the ball from your desktop.

Not a game, more of an experiment that could lead to a game …

Thanks to [remote-tilt](http://remote-tilt.com/) for the emulator.

![Topheman Playground](https://raw.github.com/topheman/playground2/master/app/public/src/css/img/topheman-playground-bandeau.png)

## Install

* `npm install`

* `node app.js 192.168.1.2:3000` (192.168.1.2:3000 being the public IP:PORT of your node server - port by default at 3000 - this is used to create the QR-Code)

OK for node v4 & v5

## Next

I coded the [v1](https://github.com/topheman/playground1) about a year ago, and now I decided to refactor it so that it could be a sort of a boilerplate for some other games.

Take it, make your own games and tell me about it !

## Notes

On their first version, heroku didn't provide WebSockets support, so socket.io fallbacked to xhr-polling. That's now fixed.

When you'll browse the code, you'll see that there is a connection/disconnetion routine on the sockets which makes sure to disconnect any mobile client which has more than one socket opened (to prevent multiple dead balls). This was a tricky part, playing with the express session and the socket.io handshake :-) …