Protosweeper

PvP Minesweeper over gRPC

Goals

• Practice mode
  • Single player
  • Untimed
  • Play specific seeds (optional)
  • Restart games
  • Interactable web page to work test strategy
    • Web page uses websockets
  • Playable through gRPC to practice for PvP
• PvP (either race or timed with scoreboard)
  • Race
    • Game can start once two players join
    • Starts when the first player clicks a cell
    • First click streamed to both players
    • All subsequent clicks are kept hidden from opponent
    • Winner is the first player to clear the board
    • Clicking a mine loses the game
  • Leaderboard
    • Solve five games back to back
    • Discard the slowest and fastest times
    • The average of the remaining three games goes on the scoreboard
  • When joining a game, provide a spectator link
  • Spectate through webpage
    • Stream clicks with SSE
  • Receive seed at the end of a game for optional practice

User flow

• Practice
  • Create a new game
    • Difficulty
    • Optional seed
    • Check game is solvable without guessing?
  • Store game in ConcurrentDictionary?
  • Connect websockets for the browser
  • Connect optional gRPC
  • Connections add a ChannelReader and ChannelWriter to the game
  • Listen for clicks on all ChannelReaders
  • Generate game board when first click received
  • Stream cells to all ChannelWriter instances
    • Prioritise gRPC?
  • Finish the game when all cells cleared or mine detonated
  • Cleanup the game when all channels disconnected or store state in a DB?
  • Restarting a game returns the state to just after the first click
• PvP
  • TBC