Space Gophers is an experiment in using Go routines and WebSockets to calculate complex physics and character/enemy movement server side. The Frontend is implemented with a basic CreateJS canvas interface and does absolutely no calculations other than managing objects in the canvas. It is entirely a server-side state object, rendered to the canvas.

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Navigate to the src folder within your GOPATH and then get the repo:

go get github.com/gophergala2016/spacegophers

Go into the spacegophers folder:

cd github.com/gophergala2016/spacegophers

And then set it up:

go build

Once that's done, you can run it:

./spacegophers -addr 127.0.0.1:8080

SpaceGophers accepts the following options:

Usage of ./spacegophers:
  -addr string
    	http service address (default ":8080")
  -v	enable verbose logging

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• Need to implement a better system for animating the enemy gophers... updating too often right now so we don't get proper animation, disabled the enemy gophers' animations for now.