I’m starting to put the AJAX game framework to the test, and applying it to some game rules. Although currently I’m starting from a higher level not covered by the rules at the moment, which is where individual game instances are created. Whoever is running a particular game instance can set the parameters of the game; starting conditions and victory conditions for instance. Then once the players have joined, the game can begin.

As this system is turn based I intend to allow a turn period to be set as part of the starting parameters. But also provide the option to have this as a maximum turn duration, and process turns as soon as all players have submitted their turn. Since turn processing will take a matter of seconds and the next turn will start once processing has completed, it would actually be possible for all players to be logged in at the same time and submit turn after turn.