louis-tarvin / draw_game

A web-based multiplayer drawing game

Hi, I'm Louis Tarvin 👋

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draw_game's Issues

Result of user testing

• chat should autoscroll to bottom
• Autofocus username and chatbox when becoming guesser

Add support for showing the alternate word that was the correct guess

the server needs to send the word optionally and the client should show the main word and, if it was used, the alternate word.

Lack of feedback when entering a non-existent room

When 'join room' is pressed with an invalid room key, nothing will happen. Perhaps the server should broadcast an event telling the client the room doesn't exist to inform the user

Autoscroll should resume if you scroll back down to the bottom

Add usernames

Let users pick a username before joining a room

Improve game logic

• Leaders should be rotated in a cycle rather than picked randomly
• Add a check to avoid picking the same word twice in a row
• Add more words

Ability to add custom wordpacks

Points

This will creating a UI to show the user list + points.
Also a system to update the score of a user and to send the score on room join

Implement proper logging in the server

Get rid of all println! statements and then use https://docs.rs/log/0.4.10/log/ + https://docs.rs/env_logger/0.7.1/env_logger/ so that we can have extremely detailed trace! logs during development and the warn logs during deployment

Add optional clear screen button

Needs a server API and a client implementation.

This should be optional as part of room settings

Ability to change pen size + custom cursor

Automated testing for the server API

We should probably have a relatively simple automated test suite for the server API.

It just needs to send web socket commands and check that it get's back the correct ones.

This isn't a priority but it would help when deploying code.

Store draw command history for round

New design

New front-end design

Chrome UI tweaks

Remove blue outline around input on chrome: outline: none;.

The or button doesn't show correctly

Capitalise word when being asked to draw / when guessed correctly

This should happen client side.

Create room settings framework for milestone 1.2

Most tasks in the 1.2 milestone are about room settings, we need to create a easily extensible way to create both the UI and server elements for this.

The create room message should be expanded to include these additional options, and the join room message (from server to client) needs to send them.

It's not clear whether csv will work into the future as the data is a bit more complicated.

handle server disconnect/preconnect

When the server disconnects the state should revert back to the pre-connected phase (null socketID, null room). Currently there isn't any handling for null socketID, there should probably be a 'Connecting' message or we somehow disable the buttons for join/connect room. Perhaps a small banner at the top saying "Not connected".

Proper word pack support

When creating a room there should be a way to choose from a list of words packs.
This will require:

• a server api for listing wordpacks
• and a client UI for allowing the user to pick them.
• Then rooms need to be changed to support multiple word packs

Improve the default word list to over 100 words

Currently there are only 15 words, which is fine for testing but over 100 would be good for a proper game

Usernames should be unique in room

When a user goes to join a room if their username already exists within the room they will not be allowed to enter

Use ping / pong messages in server to detect disconnect

If we don't receive a corresponding pong within 30 seconds we can safely assume there has been some kind of disconnection.