Design better player command interface

[jcowman2]

Overview

Player commands are instructions that are submitted by the player of a Regal game. At the moment, this handling is underdeveloped (see description below).

This issue is meant to serve as a discussion thread for the research and design of an improved player command interface experience.

Description

Currently, the player commands are parsed as raw strings through the onPlayerCommand hook. The flow looks something like this:

onPlayerCommand((command: string) => game => {
    if (command === "A") {
        ...
    } else if (command === "B") {
        ...
    }
    ...
});

Handling player commands by trying to parse a string with a series of if-else blocks is not scalable or fun. The Regal Game Library should provide a more intuitive interface for building and handling these commands.

More research into this topic is needed. Further discussion should take place as comments on this issue.