Reading Week Hackathon
Another University Reading Week has come and gone, so that means another Hackathon! This time, Jessica Long, Tom Arnett, Oskar Riches and I shifted our focus, creating a game rather than a traditional software project. The constraints were clear: it had to be a game played entirely on a single screen. We decided to build a multiplayer Geometry Dash-esque game controlled using phone motion controls! I focused on the backend, architecting a Python FastAPI service. I utilised WebSockets for robust, low-latency, two-way communication between players and the orchestration server handling sessions and dataflow. ...