dice-combat

Experimental dice combat game.

• Server is responsible for maintaining the game state, and accepting inputs: 1) player input via WebSocket, 2) AI input.
• Client is responsible for displaying the current game state, as well as giving 'local player' choices.

How to deploy

Server

For faster Docker builds, we leverage cargo-chef.

Only when dependencies changed:

cargo chef prepare --recipe-path recipe.json

Building the Docker image:

docker build . --tag gcr.io/robwil-io/dice-combat
docker push gcr.io/robwil-io/dice-combat

Edit the server/service.yaml file:

• Set spec.template.metadata.name to a new revision name
• Set spec.traffic[0].tag to the new traffic tag. This will be used in the new URL: https://<tag>---dice-combat-sxrrowqjgq-uk.a.run.app/

Deploying the new Docker image:

gcloud beta run deploy --image gcr.io/robwil-io/dice-combat --platform managed --port 9000 --tag <checkpoint name>
  -- pick Fully Managed (1) and us-east4 (20)

Every time we need to rebuild, can test the cargo-chef release build using this command: ( NOTE: This currently screws up Cargo.toml and src/main.rs due to LukeMathWalker/cargo-chef#27 )

cargo chef cook --release --recipe-path recipe.json

Client

First, make sure to update the WS_URL constant in client/src/client.rs to point to the proper Cloud Run revision of a compatible server deployment.

Example: wss://initial---dice-combat-sxrrowqjgq-uk.a.run.app/ws for tag initial

cargo make deploy <checkpoint name>

How to run locally

Server (listens on port 9000)

cargo run

Client (listens on port 8000)

cargo make serve
cargo make watch

TODO

Client/server TODO

• Client side: Display the combat log
• Implement the rest of the basic phases: selecting actions and targets.
• Figure out how to deploy this. Would be cool if WebSocket part could be deployed to CDN somehow? Cloudflare workers?

Actual game TODO

• implement Defend mechanics in action_system
• experiment with different ways of calculating bonus damage in heavy attack
• build an AI System can drive the enemies (starting with randomly selecting valid actions)
• multiplayer support (how would this even work?)