NetworkProtocolNotes

== general == 

* connecting webgl+javascript in browser via html5 websocket (tcp) to lua/c++ server

* websocket(tcp) maybe doesn't support binary data but only utf8 "text" blocks
* jason encoding for structured network messages might be good for speed on clientside (javascript slow?) and utf8 as well as debugging
* 8x8x8 terrain chunk might be transferred as 512byte long utf8 text string, if blocktype is encoded as printable utf8 char

== server-sent content ==

* tiles (box) types : texture url, name (tooltip) properties
* monster/creature "models" (pixel art flat sprites first, later maybe simple modelling from big-pixel textures and rect-blocks?)
* player skin ? 
* mapdata (update) : tile by tile (chunk) or single tile update


== movement & show/hide/create/destroy ==

* tiles (unit box) and whole map blocks
* player
* enemies/npcs
* items (on ground and in backpack/inventory. pickup?)
* buildings (look like multiple blocks but might be highlighted/tooltipped in client somehow)
* particle effects?

== gui ==

* chat
* playerlist ?
* building placement (list of available buildings and required resources)
* items crafting inside buildings (list of available items and required resources)
* other building functions (switches/levers,heal/sleep?)

== player actions ==

* use selected tool on environment (client sends which block or only direction?)
** weapons : direction (ranged)
** place blocks / construct walls
* activate object ? (switches)
* drop items (pickup automatic?)
* construct building
* use building (starts crafting gui)

=== construction ===

* blocks
* buildings/workshops
* crafting



= gameplay notes =
(different wiki page, just noting from chat)

* simple axe : stoneage like : use bare hands on : ground->small stones, tree->sticks, combine:stone-axe, slow but gets real wood
* mining stone should not be so easily achievable, need pickaxe : metal  
** 1 pick total per TEAM as start equip? npc trade?  nope =)
** a bit ore findable in soil layers ? (burn wood->coal ->smelt ore ->metal : stone anvil + coal + stone hammer -> crude metal tools)
*** metal hammer, metal anvil : better tools

= naming conventions =
* "tile" is a unit box, used for terrain and similar, 1x1x1
* "chunk" is a group of 8x8x8 tiles
* the term "block" is avoided as it is ambigious and could be understood as 1x1x1 or 8x8x8