Over the past few days I’ve paused work on the brain to tackle snail movement on the client.

I ended up using Latchet, a Laravel-specific extended version of Ratchet. To start with I just wanted to get something running. I think I ended up doing this in a really roundabout way…basically we subscribe to a specific jar topic on the client, then ping the server every 5 seconds to get back the target position of each snail within that jar. The snail then crawls toward this target position. Target pos on the server is calculated using the snail’s currentSpeed and each snail crawls at the same speed in the browser, so in theory by the time the snail reaches its target position on the server it will also have reached the same location on the client…maybe…I hope. We’ll see.