game_server/README.md

Game Server

This is the platform from which one can host any "game" that they have defined. It's a sandbox for simplistic multiplayer games(like chess, tic tac toe, othello, etc.).

Ideas

• Simple websockets connection between server and "players"(clients)
• Clients need to
  • Authenticate (at a later point)
  • Describe the protocol of the game that they're going to play to the server, which then gets compared and informs the players if there's a mismatch
• Simple web interface(list) of all current games
• Developed protocols, which clients can use.

TODOs

• Web server

  • Figure out some sort of identification that is not external IP(cuz that's dumb)
  • Hand it out
  • Start accepting requests to the websocket server ONLY to the users who have joined the game

• Websocket server

  • Ping players while waiting for people
  • Game creation
    • Rules exchange -> Have to think about that one lol
    • Game start

Flowcharts

Creation

Preparation

In progress