Hi Charlie, yes the project is very much alive, however the server is not yet finished and the specs have changed somewhat. It’s still a RESTful web service built on node.js and when it’s released I’ll upload the API documentation for it.

I’ve also compressed each unit on the board into just a few bytes and combined it with gzip, so the JSON that’s going back and forth will be very compact. Even on a large board, with 8 players and several gooey blobs and magic fires doing their start-of-turn spread phase, there shouldn’t be a lot of data being thrown around.

I may play with other ideas too – such as doing a user’s entire move client-side (using a common seed and index for any rolls) and then submitting it all in one go at the end of the turn. It’s a tad less secure, as an unscrupulous player knowing the seed and index can potentially predict future outcomes of rolls, but it’s a possibility to be explored.