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Emerging Citizens is a suite of digital multiplayer games that teaches students how to critique and create civic media.
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WWDMM(possibly global): More than 8 players can join a game, which then creates complications on the frontendUI #199

Open jpailthorpe opened 7 years ago

jpailthorpe commented 7 years ago
  1. Started a WWDMM game.
  2. 7 people were in the lobby.
  3. Erica + Jordan tried to join and take the last spot.
  4. We both came into the lobby, causing 9 players in the game.

The backend is currently limiting 8 players, but not sure if this is working or what happens when more than 8 players try to join. potential error message, but first, lets make sure the game is actually limiting the player entry. then we will worry about addressing the UX problem.

jpailthorpe commented 7 years ago

This is what happened when I tried to reproduce this:

tried to reproduce it myself, and is almost impossible to do. Basically, I was within 2 seconds of clicking “join” on both player windows, and I couldn't get it to get us both in. Not sure how to avoid this from happening, since there is obviously going to be delay between devices communicating. Therefore I am going to keep the issue but put it in icebox. Mostly to remember that this happens, but that we dont have a solution (and don’t have time right now/see this as a critical problem that needs fixing).