Emote Guessing Multiplayer

Pre-alpha first version MVP frfr ong

• generate room ID
• people joins room ID with websockets
• generate a random emote set list, send to all websockets
• people starts guessing emotes for fixed duration, say x seconds -- each user can choose to skip a emote, to break combo -- if get correct sequentially, continue to have combo -- combo multiplies score
• once round is over, present leaderboard

websocket spec, everything goes through root:

Client -> Server:

• {command: create_room, data: {}}
• {command: edit_room, data: {game_time: ''}}
• {command: join_room, data: {room_id: ''}}
• {command: start_game, data: {}}
• {command: submit_guess, data: {guess: ''}}

Server -> Client:

• {command: emote, data: {emote: {name:, id:}}}
• {command: guess_response, data: {matched_chars: '??x??'}}
• {command: game_over, data: {emote: {name:, id:}}}

Todo:

• Need to send "current user ID" as well

• Why does startup take forever?

• Should not send names to the client

• Backend should determine if joingame succeeded (i.e. client should make no decisions without the backend)

• Refactor joining page to its own component

• Game end

• Restrict input to exclude '?'

• Make URLS be env variables

• Address TODOs in the code

• Use a mutable hashmap so that other users are not affected by a single user submitting a guess

• If the emote name is too long, need to flex the boxes

• Editing room needs to reflect for other players

• Need security against copy & paste

• Need timer in frontend

• Player list does not refresh immediately on restart

• Restarting is broken

• Changing duration of the game is broken

• Mock usernames in dev enviornment

• When user disconnects remove from player list