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Continue game on another device #702

Open larry801 opened 3 years ago

larry801 commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Player cannot continue current game on another device

Describe the solution you'd like Add a feature to export jwt token or a url with token to transfer between different clients.

Describe alternatives you've considered Implement an account system login/ register etc.

cwatsonc commented 3 years ago

like this idea, but think portable jwts aren't available (or have good reasons not to be). I did a few years in Identity and believe you're describing a form of federating users, where a seamless experience exists between many screens. This could be done with public IDP's and a limited amount of effort. You need a way to describe a user's id that is device independent, and that requires authn and authz support. Don't build this per app, and reuse existing infra to ease adoption.

Just my $0.02

vdfdev commented 3 years ago

I agree this is a good idea! However, i don't think that sharing the JWT is the way to go, as the backend wouldn't be able to know about each device.

I think the better solution is allow for players either to optionally sign up/login, and we could tie several JWTs to the same account. This would also help with the idea of competitive gaming/having an ELO score for each game