tquery-multiplayerserver

multiplayer server for tquery experiments

Notes

• keep it simple and minimal

• try to make it generic

  • aka it isnt specific to a given experiment/game

• so no security on server ?

  • nevertheless client can implement security on the client side

About API

• easy to include in a game

About proto

User

• each connection got a user
• a user got a humanName (given by client)
  • unique, server side ?
• a user got a socket.id (given by server)
• a user got a profile opaque blob (given by the client)
• a userlist of those information is maintained by the server

Feature

• measure latency with ping
• ability for client to broadcast message
• a message rate limiter as anti-DoS measure