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Welcome to MUGS ⚄♠♞🏹 (Multi-User Gaming Services)! | github.com/Raku-MUGS | v0.0.5 has been released and uploaded Set by japhb on 15 March 2021. |
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| [Coke] | So, if I wanted to implement a game, where would I start? | 15:16 | |
| Also: any thoughts on "certified" randomness? (Seen for a few online games I play) | 15:17 | ||
| japhb | [Coke]: I'm not even sure how one would go about certifying someone else's server's randomness. | 16:06 | |
| I mean, for stuff like poker and casino games, I can see the reason customers would want to know that things were (within the limits of the games in question) relatively "fair", but hmmm ... | 16:07 | ||
| Maybe just having auditors review the code and confirm that it's doing the right things, and run statistical tests on the results of e.g. shuffles? | |||
| As for implementing a game ... you'll want to decide if you want to create a new game within an existing genre, or an entirely new genre (which is to say, one not yet implemented in MUGS-Games). | 16:09 | ||
| mugs-tool will let you create stubs for new genres, new games, and new UIs, but it hasn't been updated since I split the one private repo into multiple public repos, so it wants to put everything in the current tree. I'll have to fix that. | 16:10 | ||
| The next thing is to separate out the three main layers: the Server implementation, which handles the game semantics and is the point of truth for the state of the game; the Client, which basically knows how to package up player actions into requests for the server, unpack the responses, handle in-game push data from the Server, and do basic validity checks; and the UIs, which really should just handle user | 16:13 | ||
| input, display the game output, and e.g. handle help requests. | |||
| If you've already done that separation, great! It's a matter of mapping your existing API onto the MUGS APIs. | 16:14 | ||
| I can help with that. :-) | |||
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| [Coke] | cannot run 'zef install MUGS', errors out | 22:39 | |
| oops. nevermind. | 22:40 | ||
| (that was from a leftover 'zef test .' in a checkout, running a standalone install now) | 22:41 | ||
| instead, it dies on a dep: github.com/jonathanstowe/Crypt-Sod...h/issues/1 | 23:09 | ||
| Trying to update raku... | |||
| japhb | libsodium(-dev) possibly not installed? | 23:18 | |
| Sorry for the slow response. | 23:19 | ||
| japhb is alternating hacking on MUGS-Core tests and helping $offspring with forms | |||
| Every time I write 'plan 9;' in a test file, I can't stop my brain from immediately going "... from outer space!" | 23:22 | ||