kag.party

A matchmaking queue website for King Arthur's Gold.

Work in progress.

Design

Absolute minimum friction website for entering a waiting queue for a kag server.

Pick a region and gamemode, wait for a game, hit the button.

Should make some attempt at limiting users from greifing the system; considering either KAG API SSO or simple accounts or session matching as part of kag.party. The latter with tracked click-through rates may be a good way of doing things. IP-linked anonymous accounts are probably trivial too, but still require some set-up on our end. Rate-limiting poorly behaving accounts probably limits the damage.

Operates on an internal whitelist of servers in each region, randomly assigns games to help "seed" play.

Dependencies

node
ws
	async-limiter
node-static
	colors
	mime
	optimist
		minimist
		wordwrap

Setup

(clone this repo)
npm install
cp config-example-dev.json config.json

Running

node index.js

Config

Handled by an out-of-repo config file; examples configs are in config-example-*.json

• "port"
  the outbound port to serve content on
• "cache"
  cache control header (consider "no-cache, must-revalidate" for dev, ~3600 for prod)
• "behind_proxy"
  whether we're behind a proxy or not; determines where a client's IP is fetched from (the socket, or x-forwarded-for header)
• "timeout"
  the maximum time without a ping response that a socket is kept alive for, in milliseconds
• "salt"
  a string used as part of the salt used in any hashing operations (extra fragments are used in code as a contingency about this being empty)

License

Currently unlicensed - will likely open source (MIT or similar) once things are functional.