Open source .NET multiplayer HTML5 game + engine

[Jackolantern]

I thought this was definitely worth posting. So if you use .NET, you have surely heard of SignalR, which is basically Socket.io for ASP.NET. A developer has created a demo games called ShootR (link goes directly into the game) that displays almost twitch-based Websocket multiplayer using SignalR. Quite impressive. Here is a link to the ShootR Github repo.

It is also built with his pretty impressive looking HTML5 Typescript game engine, EndGate. He claims it is made from the ground-up for complex games (hence Typescript with its true OOP implementation). What will be interesting to see is if Microsoft gets behind EndGate. Ever since the release of ASP.NET MVC, MS seems to be trying to show more support to its community's work (SignalR itself was rolled-into .NET when it was originally a community project). Having the engine be completely Typescript-based definitely puts it in Microsoft's world. Heck, I found out about ShootR from a big link on an official MS webpage.

Anyway, it is quite interesting, and should be something to keep an eye on.

[Miroidan]

Nice find