Overview

Goals

The goal is to create a virtual space to play boardgames, not to fascillitate competitive play. With that in mind:

• Any player can make a move at any time
• There is no authentication
• Players make and choose their own IDs

Implementation

Elm front end with basic GoLang WebSocket server attempting to ensure consistency bewteen clients.

Building & Running

To create a local developement server run make build To spin up the server on localhost run make run

TODO

• Add simple authentication to reduce webscrapers
• Re-architect board state to remove turn dependence (all can be inferred from the move stack) and allow undo / history viewing of past turns. Likely need to increase websocket max message length.
• Server selects new game ID (add route validation)
• Lobby to display ongoing games (with filter functionality)
• Make everything look nicer
• Store some number of games to server to allow restart tolerance