This is an open-source self-hostable reimagination of evades.io in Rust, focusing on performance and modularity.

Evades has its backend written in Python, which makes it notoriously slow with a multitude of performance bugs and general lag spikes even on certain good network enviroments. This project aims to address those issues by having a highly performant and fault-proof backend written in Rust, and by using the new WebTransport API as the network protocol.

This implementation is also completely open source, and aims to be modular and self-hostable, and to allow simple modding support in the future.

1. Clone the project: git clone https://github.com/elox5/evadesplus

2. Build the dependencies: cargo build

3. Load custom map files by putting them in the maps directory

4. Set up environment variables

5. Start the server with cargo run --release

• LOCAL_IP: The IP to start the server on (default: 127.0.0.1)
• HTTPS_PORT: The port to serve the game on (default: 443)
• HTTP_PORT: The port for the HTTP redirect (default: 80)

• CLIENT_PATH: the path to the directory containing static client files (default: client/dist)

• MAP_PATH: The path to the directory containing map files (default: maps)
• MAPS: The list of maps to load (required)
• START_AREA_ID: The area ID to load new players into (required)

• SIMULATION_FRAMERATE: The framerate the simulation loop runs on (default: 60)

Recent updates to major browsers prevent WebTransport connections from being established for self-hosted SSL certificates by default. This means you need a valid CA-signed SSL certificate for the WebTransport connection to succeed. To bypass this, follow these steps:

Currently, there is no known fix for Firefox versions >= 133. Consider downgrading Firefox to version 132 or earlier.

Head to chrome://flags and set #webtransport-developer-mode to Enabled

• Implementing a modular Enemy Behavior system
• Implementing an ability system
• Spatial hashing for improved collision detection performance

• Proper support for hosting outside a local network
• Improved debug support, including an interactive server console and debug rendering capability

• Caching enemy information on the client to reduce network load
• Eventually, a WebAssembly-powered smart client which requires only periodical sync packets

• An account system
• A map editor
• Modding support
• Better documentation

• Clients on Chromium browsers don't announce disconnection to the server, leading to their heroes staying loaded for a period of time afterwards
• Clients on Chromium browsers being flooded with STOP_SENDING errors
• Chromium browsers not connecting to the server on localhost (only 127.0.0.1)