Topheman Playground - use your phone as a remote !

[topheman]

Try it here : http://topheman-playground.herokuapp.com/

 

I developped a little experiment that could lead to a game. Basically, it's using :

• NodeJS with socket.io for the real time (plugged on expressjs for the server part/session management)
  
• Ball.js (client side) : a little library I wrote that handles the physics of the balls as well as their rendering on the canvas.
  

Once you're connected to the main page with a desktop or a laptop, snap the QR-Code with a mobile device (phone/tablet), you will be able to control your ball by tilting your phone like on a labyrinth game, using your phone like a Wiimote to your desktop screen.

 

This is more an experiment that could lead to a game than a game itself.

 

All the sources are on github under MIT license, so feel free to fork it, give some feedback/ideas.

 

Tophe

 

PS : The demo is hosted on a heroku instance that doesn't support Websocket (so it fallbacks on xhr-polling), this is why you may have a little latency and the ball may take sometime to disconnect.

You can install it on your computer if you have node, it's a simple npm install, everything's explained in the readme.