So, I did follow the multiplayer tutorials and I can run an online game with three browsers: 2 are clients which use a similar .capx and 1 is the host lobby "game" which uses a separate .capx and passes info back and forth from the two clients.

And this gets to the kernel of my earlier question: what software/process do I use to run the host lobby "game" capx without using my actual computer. Is there a plug-n-play app (which I can load on the server) which will virtually run the host lobby "game" app or do I need to code something on the serve-side?

I appreciate the clarification. What gamer server would you recommend, oosyrag? Couple of other thoughts:

1. Our app does not use a lot of bandwidth, in fact it's quite minimal.

2. It would be good to keep initial costs down for the initial roll-out and then scale up as needed.

3. I've heard about the use of virtual browsers - your thoughts?

Is there anything I should ask you, that I am not?

Does anyone have a sample .capx which would demonstrate the following:

1. Players would log in (via email and password or an email link) to the game which is running on a server.

2. The player's emails serve as their Peer IDs and their avatar name (selected by them) serve as their Alias IDs.

3. The server side game would assign the players to a game room where the two (2) players would be peers and the game server would serve as the host. This is important, most importantly for security/anti-cheating purposes. I'm moderately proficient in using the multiplayer object. Keep in mind that within the "game" itself there is not any movement issues, more like an advanced tic-tac-toe game than anything else.

FYI - I am able to follow simple php script for POST/GETS/Emails. If any other scripting is required, I can learn a sample script, if necessary.

If you have any questions or require additional insight/information, just let me know.

Thanks much in advance for your help!

First, thanks for the response, Dop. Your capx just pierced the forest, now I can see the trees. Thanks for that. Maybe I'm overthinking this or missing the forest for the trees, but a follow-up context and questions.

FYI, I will be making adjustments to the data in the array which will migrated to a JSON file. But I'm comfortable with editing strings within an array, so no problem there. Check.

I'm also familiar with POST/GET processes for loading/downloading txt files to a server. Check.

So, how do I get the json file to the server? When I download the array to the JSON file it goes to my downloads folder on my computer. I'm presuming that when this app is running on the server it will save to a folder on my server, is that correct? Again, I'm familiar with the php POST/GET processes, but it seems the JSON download event automatically downloads the JSON file to a folder of its choice. How do I instruct it to download a folder of my choice?

In the alternative can I just save the JSON folder and POST it (via php) to the server file/folder of my choice? If so, how would I do this?

Thanks.

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