Varcade Games is an on-line gaming portal.

It's a place where single and multi player Javascript games are hosted and is made up of a number of interconnected components.

This gaming portal provides 'hooks' so that other developers can build and embed games within the portal, like a built in matchmaker for multi-player games and leaderboard tracking.

In order to work with Varcade Games you'll need to setup the following components:

• The main game portal website
  • Client & server
• The Matchmaker
  • A server we use to connect players
• The Game
  • A single player and multi-player fighting game... of sorts
• The Game Server
  • A server that is plugged into the matchmaker
  • Server authoritative multi-player gaming
• The Stats Tracker
  • A server we use to create leaderboards
• Prometheus & Grafana
  • Metrics and graphs for monitoring the project
• Build tools
  • The tools needed to build and run all of the above

That might seem like a lot, but there are a bunch of handy tools at your disposal to make running all of this easy. So let's go get our hands on the code and get it running!