[lazerwalker]

That sounds AWESOME from a technical perspective. Is there a reason that you're doing a client/server thing instead of just having "offline mode" be the default, though?

For a solely single-player game, it seems to me like being able to host everything off of a static fileserver instead of a Scala server seems like a scalability win for you and a bandwidth win for users. I don't doubt your choice and your tech stack (you know way more about your project and its needs than I do!), but I'd be super-curious to hear more about the reasoning and process.

[kyle_u]

Having it client/server eliminates the possibility of cheating, lets me get exact timings for analytics and data mining and whatnot, and lets me implement cool things like "Observe Game" (coming soon!).

After the feedback from this thread, I'm going to move to a "hybrid" model where the model logic all happens locally, but still fires websocket events to the server. Best of both worlds.