Create a new game room

[hayesmaker]

Am I completely missing something from the documentation/API or is there a way for a user to manually create a new game room?... The only way I see to go from the lobby to a game room is to have auto create rooms set to true, and wait for number of players... which isn't really what I want, cuz I want users to create rooms themselves to play with friends.

[dariusk]

What you would do is have the server listen for a message from the client/user, and then run cloak.createRoom on receiving that message from a user. You can see this in the Grow21 example code.

Client sends message to the server asking for a new room:

cloak/examples/grow21/client/js/Lobby.js

Lines 18 to 27 in 1933374

	createRoom: function() {
	var newRoomElement = document.getElementById('new-room');
	var newRoomUIElement = document.getElementById('new-room-ui');
	if (newRoomElement.value.trim() === '') {
	newRoomUIElement.innerHTML += '<p>Enter a valid username!</p>';
	return;
	}
	cloak.message('createRoom', {
	name: escape(newRoomElement.value)
	});

Server listens for the message and makes a room when received:

https://github.com/incompl/cloak/blob/master/examples/grow21/server/server.js#L88-L94

[hayesmaker]

Gotcha, dunno how I missed it from the docs... :)