Akar.IO

An agar.io clone made in Java!

This project was made by me and one of my classmate as a mid-year test.

All the project is made out of bare Java swing and Graphics2D, without the use of external libraries.

• TCP Sockets: for the client-server communications (this game can handle multiple clients connected to one server). UDP would have been a better choice for speed but the assignment required to use TCP connections and we do our best to make a playable game...
• Java Swing/Graphics2D: for the graphics, to draw shapes, text and images
• GIT (GitHub): to collaborate and keep our code shared
• Visual Studio Code (IDE): we used VSC as IDE with the Java extension to handle compilations and debugging steps

The server handle all the different connections with the clients. It uses a TCP socket configured on the port 7373.

All the different clients connections generates a thread that the server will handle simultaneosly.

The collisions between the client and the different entities are checked server-side, also the availabilty of usernames and the calculation of average ping per-packet.

By default the server and the clients communicate at aproximately 16/17 pps (packets-per-second).

We made a standard for our connections, with a basic packet that handle all the data that will be sent to the client from the server.

Steps when launching the game:

1. Input the desidered server address in IP:PORT format
2. Choose an username and a color
3. Click the Gioca button to enter the play area managed by the server
4. When you die it will show you a new panel with your final score; you can either choose to go back home or to play again in the same server

The client will only render all the entities sent from the server.

The render is window-based, only the things that are present in the window frame will be rendered in the viewport to achieve better performance.

The client also manage a basic ranking-table generated from an array of all current server players.

We made a standard for our connections, with a basic packet that handle all the data that will be sent to the server from the client.

Project source-code and compiled versions are freely available and licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.