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Backstory
I took a Distributed Systems course in college. For the final project, we were asked to propose and build a multiple client/server application. My team created a client/server eight-player version of Pong. I was responsible for writing the server code. This included functionality like a matchmaking lobby system and maintaining the state of each game instance (i.e., the location of paddles and ball and how many lives each player has). My partner was responsible for the GUI client, which visualized the game state data from the server and relayed user inputs back to the server.
Illustrations
For an extended example, check out this video:
Below is a report we put together at the end of the project on how the application preformed: