Hegemonie

Hegemonie is an online management, strategy and diplomacy RPG. The current repository is a reboot of what Hegemonie was between 1999 and 2003. It is under heavily inactive construction.

A Web interface...

• manages the authentication of the players
• displays the status of the country managed by each player
• proposes actions to evolve in the world.

Meanwhile, the game engine is managed by a standalone daemon that makes the world evolve at periodical ticks: long term actions progress a bit toward their completion, the movements are executed, attacks started, resources produced, etc etc.

Technical facts:

1. Written in 100% in Golang: for the sake of Simplicity and Portability. The code mostly depends on Go-Macaron. At the moment no special attention has been paid to the performance of the whole thing: this will happend after the release of a very first MVP.
2. No database required: the system has all its components in RAM while it is alive, it periodically persist its state and restore it at the startup. The status is written in JSON to ease the daily administration.
3. Notifications are emitted upon special events in the game, they are managed by a Redis service.

A game instance for a small community is lightweight enough to run on a small ARM-based board.

Architecture:

• haproxy as an SSL termination frontend.
• hege-front serves HTTP pages for the human beings
• hege-world manage the game's world through a simple HTTP/JSON API
• hege-ticker triggers the rounds in the game's world.
• redis-server

The configuration is very simple:

• A central configuration file for hege-front, hege-world and hege-ticker
• A standard configuration file for redis
• The crontab configuration to trigger the ticker.