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Flappy Bird on Rails

A simple Flappy Bird clone that uses Falcon and Live to implement real-time interactivity.

Updated Jul 12, 2024
Price: Free

Description

An absolutely impressive Ruby on Rails port of the popular game Flappy Bird that showcases how you might be able to do some basic interactive game development using Rails.

The game is implemented as a server-side rendered view. The game logic is fully implemented in lib/flappy_view.rb.
The game uses a standard Rails controller, implemented in app/controllers/game_controller.rb. The controller consists of two actions: index and live.

The index action instantiates the game view FlappyView which is then rendered by the view template app/views/game/index.html.xrb. The live action is used to accept a WebSocket connection from the client browser.

When the client connects to the server, it binds the <div class="live" data-class="FlappyView" id="..."> tag to a server side instance. User interactions generate events which are sent to the server, and the server can send HTML to the client to update the view. In addition, for things like sound effects, the server can send JavaScript to the client to execute.

The actual implementation of the game logic consists of a main game loop which updates the game physics at 30 FPS (frames per second), and then renders the update to the client browser. As the client browser may be running at something other than 30 FPS, we use CSS transforms with linear interpolation to smooth out the changes in position.

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