Game Settings

We have file called game_settings.json which will be used to set up our settings for the game. These settings are basically a key-value pair using a json file. At the moment we're allowing a few things to be configurable, but in the future we can discuss which things could be useful for us and add the needed logic to have it as a custom parameter.

In the beginning we're just supporting options server related, but we will iterate to have more options for the client.

Settings Supported

We're currently supporting the following options:

{
  "board_size": {"width": 1000, "height": 1000}, # The size of the board
  "server_tickrate_ms": 30, # Measured in miliseconds, it represents how often the server is sending the updates to the client
  "game_timeout_ms": 20, # Measured in miliseconds, it represents how much time the game session lasts
}

Adding a new parameter

In case you want to add a new parameter, there a few things to do:

• Add the new parameter in the game_settings.json file
• Go to the GameSettings.cs file and add the new attribute to the Settings class and if its a composed attribute, do something like the board_size attribute
• Add the attribute to the GameConfig struct in messages.proto.
• Run the gen-protobuf command (makefile phony)
• Add the needed logic in the server