I have reached a point in one of my projects where I think I’d like to pack it up and release it out on Steam, et-al.
Now that I am here in this place, I have a bunch of questions I never thought to consider before and wanted some feedback.. I don’t know if I am over-analyzing this but interesting descent into my mind-state below.. ANY feedback is welcome, thanks!
So the project is a VERY basic board-game. 2 players, but I could extend it to 6 if I wanted to; the gameplay would allow it. That’s not really the question I have, but the server files.
I know if I wanted a dedicated, backend-server setup for the game, like ‘proper’ that might be used in a Cod/Battlefield, etc I’d need to pull-source, compile locally, the 100’s of gigs of free space I will need, etc. I’ve NOT done this yet, but reviewed it extensively, and am familiar with the technicals of this kind of process. I have confidence I could manage this if required.
My thinking is that if I would want to, or have-to compile a dedicated server for this project I would, I mean I plan to at some point to learn, and why not now, but it only just seems like overkill. The game is VERY small, short to play, and yeah, just overkill.. 
That leaves a local server, hosted by a given player. This is fine w/me. Cheat-wise I can break up the ‘moves’ and picks of the logic so it’s like one player shuffles the cards, the other picks, etc; at least an attempt to make it fair that way. I’m not really concerned with ‘hacking’ but otherwise I get just having the game means the players have the-files of the game.
I don’t have any meshes beyond hexes, squares, circles, some geometric shapes so I am not concerned with anything in that regard, nothing custom I would care if it’s ‘ripped off’ as it were.
So..I’m looking at this and wondering if there is actually anything I really need be concerned about? I’m ALWAYS one to put in best-practices from the get-go, so given this is my first project, if making a local-server in this regard is just not-done, that’s part of the reasoning of why I am asking: you don’t know what you don’t know.
I just want to make sure I am aware of any gotcha’s that might ultimately cause me pain later on. As noted above, any input is welcome and appreciated.
EDIT: a followup Q I just thought of is for getting players/partners, it might not just be people you know from your friends-list, but if you wanted to find a random opponent, like online chess, is a dedicated-server the way to go, would it be required etc? ugh! 