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I'm attempting to build a realtime multiplayer game server in Golang using websockets as a learning project, and I'm having difficulty understanding how exactly I'm supposed to implement this concept:

All of the users in a game room are given a duration, MAX_TIMEOUT to respond to a prompt provided. Responses are submitted via websocket connections. If all of the users respond before MAX_TIMEOUT, then Action A should happen, using the responses. If MAX_TIMEOUT elapses before all of the prompts are submitted, then Action B should happen, using the responses available.

Coming from Node.JS, I could see myself implementing this with Promises, but in Golang, I'm rather lost.

Any advice?

Answer 1

Checkout gorilla/websocket's chat example. It uses tickers and channels in client.go like mentioned above.

The server's prompt handling could be its own routine running parallel to the read/write pump routines.

go func() {
    for {
        for _, player := range players {
            player.Answered = false
            player.Send("prompt")
        }

        time.Sleep(time.Second * 10)

        for _, player := range players {
            if player.Answered {
               player.Send("You answered")
            } else {
               player.Send("Too slow")
            }
        }
    }
}()

// the reading routine sets `Answered` true when message received