Multiplayer server

[parasyte]

Server needs to do a lot of things, since it acts as the "source of truth" for the game.

• Need multiple channels, E.g. private games between friends, and matchmaking games.
• To "do it right", keep the connections open and stream JSON messages back and forth from the clients.
  • Easy mode: Use PubNub instead of open connections: http://www.pubnub.com/
• Keep track of which users are connected to which channels, so messages can be dispatched appropriately.

The first iteration of the server will probably just dispatch every message it receives. A more complete server would parse the messages and act upon them appropriately; maybe dispatching, and maybe modifying the message before dispatching.

[ericachang018]

Questions!

• Are Multiple channels like Sessions in Flask?? (how I understand sessions are that they hold unique information about each particular browser so that the browser has a memory of who is playing and where they are in the game and other information that might be needed).
• can you explain to me more about what the messages are? I've been working a lot with flask for my personal project is it like the GET and POST http requests? and by dispatch is that similar to a render template function call?