This is a work in progress project.

effnine

Effnine (pronounced like f9) is a rust implementation of the classic strategy game Battleship. It uses a client / authoritative server model to prevent cheating. The server uses a REST API for stats and matchmaking and websockets for running the matches.

Todo

Development

• Implement common game model (game rules / board representation)

  • The client and server will both use this for handling game state

• Implement matchmaking api

  • Request random match
  • Create private match
  • Join private match

• Implement gameplay protocol

  • Connect both player websockets
  • Handle all game actions
  • Report winning player

• Implement TUI client

  • Show board state
  • Menu for choosing match
  • Support for anonymous sessions

Deploy

• Host an instance of the game server

Ideas

• In game chat

  • Chat / banter with opponent which playing

• Match spectators

• Remote clients

  • Users can ssh into the game server and spawn a client rather than downloading the client binary

• Returning user identification

  • Set nickname
  • Store lifetime gameplay stats

• AI opponents

  • Play against different models to see which one is the best