{"author_name":"DaleP","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[],"epoch":1459120980,"likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"9043","p_author":"DaleP","p_authorkey":"25195","p_urlkey":"44257","p_title":"Some Progress","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD35","p_time":"1459120980","p_likes":"4","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"25195","us_name":"DaleP","us_username":"dalep","event_start":"1460678400","event_key":"33","event_name":"LD35"},"text":"<p>I have the basic API and web front end done for players to create and join each other\u2019s games. This uses Node + Express to host a RESTful API on the server and some basic JQuery stuff on the client. Communication during gameplay will take place using SockJS web sockets, which will hopefully be fast enough for decent gameplay (which probably won\u2019t be that fast-paced\u00a0for an RTS \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/545402-space-it-says-is-big-really-big-you-just-won-t\">space is big<\/a>).<\/p>\n <div id=\"attachment_536098\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img class=\"wp-image-536098 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-27-at-6.21.00-PM.png\" alt=\"The multiplayer lobby of my game, Interplanetary Thermonuclear War\" width=\"620\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-27-at-6.21.00-PM-279x300.png 279w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-27-at-6.21.00-PM-550x592.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-27-at-6.21.00-PM.png 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Would you like to play a game?<\/p><\/div>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/minild66\/\" rel=\"tag\">#MiniLD66<\/a><\/p>","time":"March 27th, 2016 6:23 pm","title":"Some Progress"}