This project includes a framework and some implementations for running a game server.

• Core framework: interfaces Game (definition of a game), Player (definition of a player), PlayerConfiguration (definitions for multiple players) and GameManager (allows running games with players).
• Tic Tac Toe Example game implementation. Game for two players that place O or X alternatively on a 3x3 board.
• Tai Pan Example game implementation. Trick-taking card game for four players playing in two teams.
• Server The web service that is the backend for playing games.

Build the project with ./gradlew build. This will also run the tests.

Run the tests with ./gradlew test.

• Fully reactive (Kotlin Coroutines) game library
• Run a game with a player composition
• Basic implementation for TicTacToe game
• Basic implementation for Tai Pan game
• Basic implementation of a game server that users can interact with

• Add backend web service to play games

  • Spring WebFlux with Coroutine support
  • No authentication or authorization, URLs should be short lived and unguessable, UUIDs.
  • A maximum number of active games.
  • APIs:
    • List of available games
    • For a game:
      • Open games
      • Create a new game
    • For a started game with enough players:
      • Current game state (subscription query, SSE?)
      • Player specific game state (subscription query, SSE?)

• Add frontend to allow users to play games.

  • URLs:
    • / Homepage, list of games
    • /{game} Homepage of a game, active games, games waiting for players, button to join existing game or set up new game.
    • /{game}/{gameId}/join Join an existing game, redirect to player page.
    • /{game}/{gameId}/{playerId} The page specific page where the game can be played

• Improve Game library

  • Games should manage some kind of state (game state and player specific state), and be more event driven internally, instead of imperative.

• CLI interface for playing games

Publish the application as a Docker image to Heroku with

./gradlew jib --image registry.heroku.com/hiddewie-game/web

Release the pushed version with

heroku container:release --app hiddewie-game web