Laser Squad Nemesis Tournament Administrator System

 

PREPARATION

PLAYER AUTHENTICATION

INITIATING A GAME

GAME OVER CALLBACKS

INFORMATIONAL FUNCTIONS

HALL OF FAME

PREPARATION

OVERVIEW

The Tournament Administrator System allows you to automate your own tournaments or meta-games using a simple interface to the LSN tournament administrator system. This system allows you to:

  • Initiate a game between two LSN players with game parameters of your choosing
  • Process the results of games, via a callback from the administrator system.
  • Authenticate a player via a login process.
  • Request information about administered games and maps.

Things you will need:

  • A fixed IP address
  • A website
  • A database
  • Some programming skills

Your IP address must be permanent and always available. You can use a cable modem for testing purposes, but we cannot allow cable modems to run live tournaments.

If you need cheap hosting, and are not averse to installing software on a linux system, you can rent a linux virtual machine from our hosting providers, Bytemark, for as little as £15 a month. Check www.bytemark.co.uk for details.

Your website should provide all the information players need about your tournament, and should display the latest results of matches you are administering. You will need to have some kind of database to track the games you have started.

ADMIN DATA

You need to supply us with the following information:

  • Tournament title 20 characters maximum
  • Tournament description 300 characters maximum
  • IP address your IP address used to make requests to the admin system
  • Website url your tournament website
  • Callback url which will be used for the game over callbacks
  • Email address for the tournament administrator

You will then be provided with an admin ID (an integer) which you must supply as a parameter in admin requests.

If your tournament has a definite end, or is split into ‘seasons’ or ‘rounds, you can request a new admin ID for each new competition, even if your other admin data remains the same.

You can supply maps specifically for your tournament which will not be available for general LSN games.

All correspondence regarding the tournament should go to julian@codotech.com