Age of War — 1v1 online
The original Flash Age of War (650×450, 40 fps), ported to a modern web stack and playable
against a friend straight from the browser. Graphics, animations, sounds, UI and unit stats are the
original ones, extracted from the game's SWF; the game logic is a deterministic TypeScript port of
its ActionScript.
Play: https://basil-as.github.io/Age-of-War-p2p/ — pick a version, then Play with a friend and send the link.
Two versions share one network layer and can be switched from any menu (⇄ button, also in the pause menu):
- Original — the Flash game rebuilt on a modern stack: the original art, animations, sounds, stats and rules, but a new responsive engine and interface — the battlefield fills any screen (phone, 16:9, ultra-wide), HUD and menus are HTML (Svelte), 3× hi-res art on desktop, 2× on phones.
- Всраатая (lite) — my first from-scratch version with procedural art, instant load.
Stack
Vite 8 · TypeScript · PixiJS 8 (own mini Flash display-list engine) · Svelte 5 overlays · Tailwind 4 ·
Trystero / WebRTC · Vitest · Playwright · Biome · PWA.
How it works
tools/swf/ — parses the SWF and generates public/orig/ (sprite atlases per era, data tables, sounds, fonts).
Rebuild with node tools/swf/build-assets.mjs public/orig && node tools/swf/build-data.mjs public/orig
(needs the SWF export, see the env vars at the top of those scripts).src/orig/sim.ts — deterministic simulation (own PRNG, own trig) so two browsers stay in lockstep.src/net/ — lockstep (4-tick turns, input delay, state hash check) over a connection ladder.
Connection ladder (fault tolerant)
The host listens on every route at once; the guest walks down them. First live peer wins, direct routes get a head start.
| # | Route | Notes |
|---|
| 0 | LAN (server/lan.mjs) | same network, no internet, ≈1 ms |
| 1–3 | WebRTC, signalling via Nostr / BitTorrent / MQTT | direct P2P, lowest ping |
| 4 | WebRTC via TURN (443/TCP too) | strict NAT, blocked UDP |
| 5–6 | Game frames over Nostr / MQTT relays (wss) | no WebRTC at all |
| 7 | Your own relay (?ws=, VITE_WS_RELAY) | server/relay.mjs |
| – | Manual copy-paste codes (works on LAN with no internet) | no servers |
The ping badge turns red above 150 ms. For consistently low ping (e.g. from Russia) host your own
TURN + relay near both players: see deploy/ — build with VITE_TURN / VITE_WS_RELAY.
Same local network
npm ci && npm run build && node server/lan.mjs # prints http://192.168.x.x:8080
Both players open that address → Play with a friend. Works without internet.
Opponent AI
Settings → Opponent AI: Smart (default; the bot pays for units/turrets, earns gold/xp from kills,
evolves, buys slots, uses its special) or Classic (the original script that spawns units for free).
Develop
npm ci
npm run dev # http://localhost:5173
npm test # ~85 unit tests: rules, fuzz, determinism + golden hash, asset/data integrity, i18n, handshake, ladder, multipath, bot, perf budget
npm run e2e # Playwright: visuals, solo/win/lose flow, resize/phone, PvP (BroadcastChannel + WS relay), production build + service-worker cache
See docs/COMPARISON.md for how this relates to other open-source clones and NOTICE.md for credits.
