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Comment on Ask HN: What stack for a multiplayer board game?

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Have you looked at Vassal? https://vassalengine.org/

It's a board game engine and has multiplayer support. There's also boardgame.io which looks hipper (npm), but I didn't see any screenshots of games being played.

Regarding scaling, there's articles about lots of stacks doing 1M websockets on a host; if that's limiting you, you've got a lot of players, so that's a nice problem to have.

tspOP

I wasn’t aware that so many parallel websocket connections were possible. I would like to enable ~500 people to play at the same time. So using websockets might work after all.

tspOP

Boardgame.io looks fantastic! JavaScript based frameworks / libraries without a view layer are exactly what I am looking for!

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