Components of a General Game Server

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Adit Jain edited this page Jun 1, 2020 · 1 revision

The components include:

a. Server

Database
- User, where each user has the following attributes
  - Username, Password Hash
  - Games they have played
  - Some rating/ranking maybe
  - Current Game
- Games, where each game has the following attributes
  - Game ID
  - Players Involved
  - Game type
  - Move History in the appropriate format
Game Server monitoring each running game
- This can be the existing boardgame.io's Lobby object.

b. Gameplay - Each game on the server has gameplay which has two components

Game Definition - boardgame.io's Game Object
- Setup
- Moves, Turns and Phases
- Gameplay
Board Definition - boardgame.io's Board Object
- How the board looks - UI
- How the user interacts - UX

c. UI

UI of the lobby/authentication/profile page
UI of the game - stored in 'Board' definition.

UML Diagram

Notes/ Future Features

Ideally, there should be an option for turning on anonymous play for each game.
Old games can be used to create new/interesting games