origially an experiment to create a 3D Spaceship Simulator, this project is now a 2D multiplayer Spaceship shooter game made with Phaser.io that serves as a way of developing new skills and testing out different approaches to solving game problems

this project uses a monorepo architecture where the client and server parts of the game are split into two separate projects, space-sim-client and space-sim-server, under the ./projects/client and ./projects/server directories respectively and a third shared project, space-sim-shared, which contains components used in both the client and server is under the ./projects/shared directory.

the build process must first build the shared project since it is used in both of the other projects, but they can be built in any order after building space-sim-shared. when running locally you should use the npm run start:dev command as this will first build shared and then startup both the client and server projects running on localhost ports 4500 and 8081 respectively. for running in production use the npm run build command followed by npm run open -w space-sim-server to start the game server on port 8081 and deploy the ./docs directory to your static site server.

• provide a customisation scene in the game allowing players to specify the look of their ship as well as the attached engine and weapon specifications
• develop a more fleshed out Singleplayer mode
• implement more Multiplayer game modes like 1v1, team battles, timed battle royale
• implement a Multiplayer lobby where players can wait for their games to start or choose their opponents (for modes like 1v1)
• better UI