[erlang-questions] Turn based game server in erlang

[Unix One]

On 05/30/2015 02:10 PM, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
> Most turned based games I am aware of just use HTTP for (1).
>
> Using HTTP allows you to focus on (2) what you want to implement. It's
> also a very solid solution, will work better through proxies or on
> mobile networks, etc.

That's the way I was leaning as well despite the fact that the research 
paper I cited leans to the other side.

Beyond the low level protocol, I have many more things to worry about on 
the "administrative" side like higher level game protocol, user login, 
presence, statistics, game join/start/end, processing actual game 
messages/turns, managing subscriptions, timeouts, etc. It seems like 
most of these are general functions that could apply to any turn-based 
game to keep the game engine itself separated and only invoked via 
callbacks or similar.

Maybe I'll need to whip up a minimalistic "admin" service, and an 
interface between it and the game engine. BTW, thanks for the feedback.