Linkable Matches, Match Replays and Video Output

[DreadKnight]

Just doing a bit of brainstorming and feature planning.

It would be great to be able to link people to your match so that they can spectate it.

Also, after a match is finished, the linked page would offer the visitor to watch the replay. Being able to save the replay in a video format would be a plus, as well as uploading it straight to youtube. A list of recent matches should be displayed in each player's profile.

As the game gets updated and tweaked on a regular basis, it's very likely that replays will struggle with not being backwards compatible. There are 2 factors to be taken into consideration:

• database tables, which can be solved by storing some of the tables under a different name that contains version
• game files, this issue is more complex, an idea would be for the game to have the ability to access certain patches from github or just store different versions of various files required for gameplay