Vocab Search

A Word Hunt copycat with realtime multiplayer.

completed gamewebsite

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Overview

This is the first time I’ve used GitLab in any real capacity. This is part of my goal to transition towards GitLab from GitHub. I found the deployments and runners to be much easier to use than GitHub Actions. I also like the idea of having a self-hosted GitLab instance in the future.

This is the very first game I made! I had to handle/deal with game state, user input, and realtime multiplayer for the first time. I learned a lot and am happy with how it turned out. Web sockets are definitely easier than I thought they would be.

Something I wish I was better at was integration testing. I often had to manually play out the game in lieu of some testing harness. I think if I had done more of that, I could have iterated faster and with more confidence.

See this GitLab repo for the code and development history of this project.

Note The repo is currently private as I have some cleanup tasks I want to protect the world from