games

to build and run

$ rebar3 shell

to test

open http://localhost:8080/connect4 in 2 browser tabs (one for each player)

Overview

• Serves the HTML + JS for the list of games located in priv folder
• manages the pool of players who joined a specific game, and broadcast each moves.

API

• recv incoming websocket message
• resp respond to client
• bcast message to a group of clients

List of players in game room

• recv {msg:"players", game: "connect4"}
• resp {key:"joined", val: "Joe"}

Join a game room

• recv {msg:"join", game: "connect4", player: "Joe"}
• bcast {key:"joined", val: "Joe"}

Start a game with selected players

• recv {msg:"start", players: ["Joe", "Mike"]}
• bcast {key:"started", val: "56576-767867-6876786-786768"}

Make a move

"3,4@1" means: 'player 1 moved to coordinates 3,4 on the board'

• recv {msg:"move", move: "3,4"}
• bcast {key:"move", val: "3,4@1"}

Quit a game

• recv {msg:"quit"}
• bcast {key:"quit", val: "Joe"}