ARENA: Local Multiplayer Tic-Tac-Toe game

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Hey there, awesome project, but you seem to have used a lot of AI in your codebase. Please rewrite some of it it yourself, its okay if its very simple, but do it yourselves please, as we would like to see how you worked on the project!

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Hey there, awesome project, but you seem to have used a lot of AI in your styling. Please rewrite some of it it yourself, its okay if its very simple, but do it yourselves please, as we would like to see how you worked on the project!

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Hiya,
Nice project, however it seems that you've used more than 30% AI usage within this project, please get your AI usage below 30%. For example by rewriting the AI parts of your project.
Awesome project anyway! I'd love to see how this turns out!
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Hiya,
Nice project, however it seems that you've used more than 30% AI usage within this project, please get your AI usage below 30%. For example by rewriting the AI parts of your project.
Awesome project anyway! I'd love to see how this turns out!
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Hey! Thanks for shipping your project. It's not quite ready for voting yet, so here's what we'd like you to change:
- Rework the CSS, right now it looks like every other AI-made site. Give it your own style.
Once you've made these, ship it again and we'll take another look!

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Hello there, since this a web app, can you please host the website on any hosting service you can use, Vercel or GitHub Pages, and that should be your demo link

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Hello, few this since you wrote the readme by hand, can you update your AI usage and also make sure to update the banner so it's your project in action!
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Hey there,
this looks like a cool idea. Sadly your README seems to be made with AI, as already mentioned by another Shipwright prior to this review (~3 days ago). Please reduce your AI usage and re-write the README yourself!

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Hey jayanth_raveendra!

Cool project however there are signs of AI usage in the Readme, can you please declare it as AI assisted!
Dm @Rohan for any questions : D

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Hey jayanth_raveendra,
You seem to have used a lot of AI in your readme. Please rewrite it yourself, as we would like to see how you worked on the project!
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@jayanth_raveendra on ARENA: Local Multiplayer Tic-Tac-Toe game · about 2 months ago

ARENA is a real-time multiplayer game where your face is your login. No passwords, no typing—just split-second biometric verification computed directly on your device’s GPU.

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS:

🔹 Edge ML Biometrics: Uses face-api.js for zero-latency, client-side 128-d facial encoding.

🔹 Real-Time WebSockets: Live asynchronous matchmaking lobby and instant mid-game disconnect handling.

🔹 FIDE-Standard Elo: Mathematically calculates win probabilities and dynamically updates your global ranking.

🔹 Resilient Microservices: Fully containerized stack (FastAPI, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB) with automated database retry loops.

HOW TO DEMO:

Because ARENA is a full-stack microservice architecture, it is too heavy for a free cloud host. My GitHub repository is the demo! To experience the magic on your own machine:

Clone the repo and add the .env variables.

Run "docker compose up --build -d" in your terminal.

Go to localhost:5500 in your browser and register your face!

(Want to play with friends on your Wi-Fi? The README has instructions on how to use ngrok to securely tunnel the Nginx proxy to their phones!)

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@jayanth_raveendra on ARENA: Local Multiplayer Tic-Tac-Toe game · about 2 months ago

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What started as a basic software systems course project just got a massive 6-hour architectural overhaul. I wanted to build ARENA, an identity-verified multiplayer Tic-Tac-Toe game where your face is literally your password.Here is the breakdown of the sprint to get to v1.0.0:The Biometric Overhaul (Moving to the Edge)
Originally, the facial recognition was a heavy, monolithic server-side pipeline. It was a dependency nightmare and crushed the server. I completely ripped it out and migrated to Edge ML using face-api.js. Now, the client browser computes 128-d facial encodings directly on the user’s GPU. Server load dropped to near-zero, and the latency is basically gone.The Microservice Migration
I took the original god file and shattered it into a clean microservice architecture. Containerized the whole thing using Docker Compose. It now features a resilient Python backoff/retry loop so the FastAPI backend waits patiently for the databases to initialize before booting.The Local Network “Final Boss”
This was the hardest part of the overhaul. I wanted users to connect via their phones on the same Wi-Fi. But Chrome strictly blocks webcam access on unencrypted HTTP connections unless it is localhost.The Fix: I set up an Nginx reverse proxy to route frontend and API traffic through a single port. Then, I wrote dynamic JavaScript routing and piped the whole thing through an ngrok tunnel. Now, I can spin up the containers, run the tunnel, and send friends a secure HTTPS link to play against me locally! It was a crazy 6 hours of fighting WebSocket race conditions and Nginx regex bugs, but ARENA is finally production-ready (I hope :) ).