How to start it?

Its been such a long time since I've worked on this project that I have no idea.

Probably a

• in terminal - sudo docker-compose up
• in a browser go to - http://localhost:${the public port}
  • although it seems no public port has been set which is an oversite on my part
  • I plan to come back to this, just not yet

General Idea

• Players create a game

  • they choose their game file
  • They choose their type of hosting
    • Dedicated host
    • Player host - The fastest player hosts for everyone
    • 1 to 1 connectins - everyone has a connection to everyone else
  • Maximum number of players if applicable, some game's only support 1 player or 1v1
    • Some games have a minimum of players
    • Some games have free for all mode and others have team mode
    • Sometimes order matters, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes randomness happens regardless
    • For free for all, Any number of players is allowed up to the limit set by the game
    • For team mode
      • The number of players should be divisible by the number of teams
      • But due to people leaving and some fun games being unpopular, that's not always an option
  • Configuration expected by the game
    • this might be something like in dota
      • Ban list
      • Hard mode
    • It's configured ahead of time so people won't be able to change it in game
  • Some games expect a configuration set by players before hand
    • Examples
      • Magic the gathering
      • Pokemon
    • Is there a way to verify a players configuration anonomously before hand?
      • in magic, the deck is hidden. This adds suspense and mystery
      • At the very least, the number of cards per deck might be counted. But that might be too much information

• The lobby gets created

• People can find game lobbies based on game title, user description or game description. Perhaps more

• Each game lobby has

  • a user set description - LURKER DEFENSE GOGOGO
  • The image the game made
  • The title of the game
  • The description of the game
  • Player configuration
    • 1v1
    • Free for all - how many max players
    • Teams - how many teams and max players
  • The Game configuration
    • Unique to the game

• If the game that the lobby is created for requires a player configuration

  • There is a popup dialog that makes the player to choose one or more configurations
  • Or they can create a new configuation
  • Perhaps they can choose a url and use a configuration from the internet

• If the game starts or gets filled before their configuration is finished, they are notified

• While in the lobby

  • The player has the ability to chat with others in the lobby

  • The game is downloaded via webtorrent from the other players

    • this should be faster and less burdensome on the server

  • The players all connect to the host or eachother

  • The Players also Share their public encryption key with the newly joined player

    • The newly joined player then
      • creates a unique shared key for a single other player
      • Encrypts that shared key with the other players public encryption key

  • The new player also creates a public encryption key

    • The other players create a shared key for that player as well

  • The lobby creator can attempt to update the player or game configuration

    • The other players may veto the configuration by popular vote
    • The vote has 20 seconds o pass, otherwise the only votes are counted or new configuartion is accepted
    • If the lobby creator is the only player, it gets automatically accepted

  • The lobby creator can switch players in reagrd to team and/or order

    • The other players may veto the configuration by popular vote
    • The vote has 20 seconds o pass, otherwise the only votes are counted or new configuartion is accepted
    • If the lobby creator is the only player, it gets automatically accepted

  • I player may ask another player to switch with them in regard to team and/or order

    • if the other player accepts, they switch

  • When all players have downloaded the game

    • the lobby creator can start
    • 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
    • Game starts

  • In Game

    • There is still a chat available but overall the contents are out of my control
    • For live games there is also a timer
      • if someone starts to lag behind
        • The game stops
        • The game waits for that person to catch up
        • If that person doesn't catch up in time or is a repeat lagger, the other players can kick them
      • For hosting
        • messages are encrypted and sent to the host for which the host shares with everyone else
        • the host can kick a person for whatever reason they want
    • For Move games
      • For shared turns where players play a turn at the same time (like pokemon)
        • The player creates a new encryption/decryption key and encrypts the move
        • The player then sends the encrypted move to all other players
        • When all players have made a move or a time limit is up
          • The player sends the encryption/decryption key to the other players for them to decrypt the move
        • The encryption/decryption key should be unique each time For shared turns where each player gets a turn one at a time
      • There is a "prepare step" then a "commit step"
      • The player can make whatever moves they want

Ladder

• Ranked vs Unranked games
• Allow people to play other players of similar calibur so that they can enjoy themselves

Artificial Intelligence

• Making bots is a pretty good idea to make asure people can still have fun offline
• perhaps there can be a "bot only" ladder for games to figure out whos the best

Interesting Game Configurations

• Anonmyous Mode in turn based game
  • A players stats like life total or points till win are public although their name is unknown
  • To send move messages, perhaps use something like tor routing.
    • psuedocode
      • Each player has a public encryption key
      • a player chooses multiple end points and encrypts the message multiple times
        • Each level of encryption has the next message as well as who they are expected to send to
      • the reciever is then expected to decrypt the message and pass it along
      • until the very end when the final user releases the information
    • Issue
      • if one person is 5 players and another is 1, they know exactly where a message is coming fom encrypts a message multiple times and orders it to come out of another user
  • People Know who their targeting but don't know where an action is coming from
    • This makes diplomacy much more difficult
  • For turned based games, the order of the people should be randomized
    • However people will know that certian things like permanents and spells are owned by that player
      • since the turn order is preset
      • Although maybe its possible to randomize the turns until the last person has been chosen and it gets randomized again
    • Nobody else can use them
  • For same turn games - nobody knows where the move is coming from
    • Can we support complete anonymity or can we only support single person anonymity
      • the problem with complete anomyity is how will we know a player lost or won if we can't track them at all?
      • We can't track them. Perhaps theres no losers but there can be a winner
      • Psuedo code for detecting a winner
        • Each person starts with a private encrypt/decrypt key
        • They encrypt the message 0000 0000 0000 0000 or 0123456789, something predictable and long
        • When a player reaches a win condition, they are then expected to share the private encrypt/decrypt key
        • Everyone can then verify that it was that individual who one
    • To track a single series of actions seperate from a player
      • For each turn
        • Person creates a private encrypt/decryption key
        • encrypts the message 0000 0000 0000 0000
        • sends that encrypted message along with the players turn info
      • The next time a player does an axtion
        • They pass in the encrypt/decrypt key from the last turn
        • then they create a new encryption key and it goes again
      • If a player were to lose, I don't think it can be tracked unless we know a player's actions is related to a specific player
        • As a result, tracking a single string of actions but not tying that string to a player can't result in a loss condition
        • Must be a win similar to complete anonymity
    • To track a single series of actions but tie it to a player
      • We have the opportunity to create a loss condition
      • At the start of the game
        • Person creates a private encrypt/decryption key
        • encrypts the message 0000 0000 0000 0000
        • sends that encrypted message to all other players notifying them it was the individual
        • All other players store that encrypted message and relate it to the player's id
      • Each turn
        • The player encrypts a new message
        • Passes the decryption key to the last one
        • This lets the other players know that the message came from that player
        • All other players store the new encrypted message and relate it to the player's id
    • The only way we know its from the same person is
• The fair algorithm
  • I don't know how to calculate but it goes something like this
    • 1001 0110 0110 1001 0110 1001 1001 0110 0110 1001 1001 0110 1001 0110 0110 1001
  • I'm unure how to handle larger groups like 3,4,5 etc... only 1v1