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Multiplayer Maze

Real-time multiplayer over raw TCP sockets

A Pac-Man-inspired maze game with a hand-designed text protocol, one server thread per client and a synchronized broadcast relay - played by several people at once on a real LAN.

Highlights

ServerSocket with one ServerThread per client and a synchronized broadcast()
Custom CONNECT / REGISTER / MOVE text protocol, designed from scratch
JavaFX client with directional sprites and a live scoreboard