pong-online

Requirements

• Kubernetes 1.9
• Agones installed on the cluster (see)

Installation

git clone https://github.com/zaymat/pong-online

First, build the docker image

cd ./server
docker build -t pong .

and then create the gameserver on Kubernetes

cd ./kubernetes
kubectl apply -f server.yaml

Goal

This is a proof of concept of using Agones plugin for Kubernetes. We will create a pong server and a pong client to use the Google Gameserver plugin for Kubernetes : Agones [https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/agones]

Agones

Few weeks ago, Google announced his new plugin for Kubernetes, developed with Ubisoft : Agones. This plugin allows to manage and scale gameservers, and I found interesting trying to developed a homemade gameserver and running it on Kubernetes.

Server

In addition to running the game, the server implement Agones SDK whick perform healthcheck and shutdown automation.

Client

The client is written in Go and graphics are managed by the SDL library. There is no logic in the client, only message handling and window drawing.

State of progress

The game is playable with client and server, and the server implement the Agones SDK and run on Kubernetes.

Improvements

• The GUI of the client is very poor. It would be cool to improve it a little bit
• Work on ball speed and racket speed
• Developed a matchmaking server, which scale the kubernetes gameservers
• Create JS client (more is better)