Making an Online Multiplayer Dungeon Crawler - Colyseus Legionary Course - Vol. 1

This ebook is a technical and straightforward deep dive into how Mazmorra.io has been built, with full compilable source code included. It explains the process of developing the game as a solo indie developer and the core concepts behind its development.

Mazmorra has been made with Colyseus, which is a Node.js Multiplayer Framework that allows you to move quickly. Making multiplayer games has never been this fun!

Table of contents (Free preview - 11 pages)

• Welcome
• Introduction
  → What is Mazmorra?
  → System requirements
  → Running the game locally
• Making Online Multiplayer Games
  → Make it sustainable
  → Monetization
  → User retention
  → Lifecycle
• Prototyping and Early Experiments
  → Working Solo and Imposing Limitations
  → Look and feel
  → Photoshop: Assets production and workflow
• Core concepts
  → Authoritative Multiplayer Games
  → Procedural Dungeon Generation
  → Game State Synchronization
  → The behaviour system (Entity-component)
  → Movement system
  → Inventory system
  → Persisting user data in the database
• HTML5 Build Tools
  → Sprite sheets
  → Audio and audio sprites
  
• Conclusion

Is this course for me?

• You don't need to have experience in networking
• It is expected that you have an understanding of JavaScript
  
• It is expected that you have an understanding of Node.js

(If you support me on Patreon, you get this for free!)