Bones Volleyball is an mvp example game implemented in Rust using the Bones game engine. This project serves as a demonstration of how to create a simple 1v1 networked game with rollback netplay functionality, with comments throughout the code which can help as a starting guide for learning how to use bones.
The game itself features 2 players, each one assigned an idx where 0 is on the left and 1 is on the right. If the ball touches the ground on your side, the opponents gains a point. The first player to get to 15 wins.
Both controller and keyboard are natively supported, with directional inputs + jump.
This game utilizes a default hosted bones_matchmaker which is usable without any additional configuration (at the time of this project's creation). In other words, the matchmaker is used to initiate the match between 2 game clients and the inner library in bones (iroh) connects the two players either directly together for fast p2p networking, or through a relay if required (for nat traversal or otherwise).
If you wish to use your own matchmaker, you can run one on a server and update the matchmaking_server key in the assets/game.yaml file in this project.
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Clone the repository:
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Navigate to the project directory and run the game in two different terminal windows:
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In both game windows, select "Online Play" and choose an input delay.
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Enjoy a basic 1v1 volleyball game!
Tip: Press F1 to open the networking debug menu to see things like ping, networking throughput, frame data, etc.
To do quick testing while adding new features, scripts for windows/linux have been added. These scripts compile the game, start two clients, and allow you to get into a match very quickly.
From the base folder of this project, simply call (Linux):
bash scripts/compile_start_two_games.shor (Windows)
./scripts/compile_start_two_games.ps1This project is licensed under the MIT License.