wtf is magic-arena?

Magic Arena is a browser based multiplayer game where players control wizards fighting each other from a top down view. You pick one of five spell casting classes, create a room, and share a short four letter code with friends so they can join. The first player to reach ten kills wins the match, and there is a rematch button to start again with a fresh random map. Each class has its own basic attack and a special ability. For example a Pyromancer throws fireballs and can trigger a burning cone attack, a Frostweaver slows enemies with ice and can throw up a temporary wall, and a Hexblade fights in melee and can root a target with a shadow projectile. Players can even switch classes while waiting to respawn, which adds a layer of strategy to countering an opponent mid match. Other small mechanics include healing on a kill, slow passive health regeneration, brief protection right after spawning, and knockback on every hit. On the technical side, the game is built with Phaser 3, a browser game framework, on the client, and Node.js with Socket.IO, a library for real time communication, on the server. Importantly, the server is authoritative, meaning it runs the actual game simulation at sixty times per second and decides movement, collisions, damage, and who wins, while the browser client only sends button and mouse input and displays whatever the server tells it, which prevents players from cheating by modifying their own client. All the pixel art sprites and sound effects are generated at runtime in code rather than loaded from image or audio files, so the project has no build step and no media assets to manage. To run it yourself, you install dependencies in the server folder and start it, then open the game in a browser locally or share it over a network. The project also documents how to deploy it to hosting services like Render, Railway, or Fly.io, since the server just needs its port read from an environment variable and WebSocket support enabled. It is released under the MIT license.