The story
Designed for 1 Eye against up to 4 Runners in 12 to 18 minute matches. The Eye sees the house in a 2D side view and attacks with a charged laser, traps and minions; Runners loot room by room until they can escape, and every item they carry costs speed. Dead Runners become the Eye’s minions.
Built in Unity 6 with FishNet, client-hosted, with every packet tunnelled through AL-Arcade’s own WebSocket relay so nobody has to open a port.
Hard parts cleared
- A custom FishNet transport that carries game traffic over a WebSocket relay and keeps FishNet’s channel byte on every packet.
- A lobby and relay server: six-character room codes without look-alike letters, role assignment, ready checks, host migration and stale-room cleanup.
- One seed, the same dollhouse on every machine: 8 to 30 rooms over 2 to 4 floors with a connectivity check, and only the server spawns networked rooms.
- Client-side prediction for Runner movement with replicate and reconcile at a 30 Hz tick.
