Figure out how to serve list of online rooms

majesto-games / curves2

HTML5 implementation of the popular multiplayer game 'achtung die kurve'

https://curves.netlify.com/

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Figure out how to serve list of online rooms #2

Open nikteg opened 6 years ago

nikteg commented 6 years ago

Can we use the signalling server used in Netflux?
Should we run our own backend? GraphQL perhaps? 😛
Or what about a distributed approach where everyone is connected to a permanent group, used only for distributing room information? I.e. we will have two groups in total when creating an online room – the permanent and the room group.

nikteg commented 6 years ago

If we want to collect stats such as 'total games played today' a custom backend is needed.

nikteg commented 6 years ago

I've implemented a rudimentary p2p gossip protocol using a scuttlebutt CRDT. Currently it trusts all peers and does not handle room removal. See https://github.com/majesto-games/curves2/commit/48c1c451253634dcc4ef1287d8f07464781537d9

nikteg commented 6 years ago

I will research https://github.com/dominictarr/epidemic-broadcast-trees as an alternative to scuttlebutt (the gossip protocol+database), as scuttlebutt seems to be no longer maintained in favour of scuttlebutt-secure (which is something else entirely 🤷‍♂️ and requires a local server running outside of the browser because of crypto-stuff).