Matchmaking

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GET/PUT /rooms
GET/PUT /players

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Old idea

IRC channels are game rooms.
For now we'll need a max of 8 users per channel, but in the future we can +v players, and -v spectators, and allow up to 32 users per channel.

The first player to join a channel creates it and gets +o. +o is the host. Hosts can start a game.

When a game starts, a CTCP message should be sent to the channel. Like how IRC clients implement /me: CTCP #channel ACTION text, we could use CTCP #room GAME_STARTING. DirectPlay connection info needs to be sent to the players, which could either be a message to the room or to individual players: CTCP nick GAME_LAUNCH <host_ip> <dp_session_guid>.

May prefer to use a slightly modified IRC server that doesn't allow you to fake CTCP messages as easily (perhaps by sending them from the server, and not the room host)

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Instead of a modified IRC server, perhaps a service would suffice :D nooope

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May need a small REST-like service instead.

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https://github.com/goto-bus-stop/aocmultiny-server it is

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Will scale the project down for now and start with "homemade" matchmaking, i.e. joining players will have to copy-paste an address string from the host. Can easily add stuff on top of that to list open rooms.