title: "Game Backend Engine" version: "unknown" last_updated: "2026-01-14T06:44:04.487546139+00:00" purpose: "Server-side game logic for "Shall We Play?" handling game state, multiplayer coordination, and reward distribution. " namespace: "valina-rpg" tags: - gaming-&-entertainment - valina-rpg - auto-generated

Game Backend Engine

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Overview

Server-side game logic for "Shall We Play?" handling game state, multiplayer coordination, and reward distribution.

Manages game sessions, player state, quest execution, and coordinates with the learning system for educational reward integration.

📦 Source Repository

Key Features

Game state management
Multiplayer session coordination
Quest execution engine
Reward calculation and distribution
Leaderboard management
Anti-cheat mechanisms

Architecture

WebSocket-based game server with Redis for live state and PostgreSQL for persistence

System Overview

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flowchart TB
    subgraph EXTERNAL["🌐 External"]
        CLIENT[/"👤 Clients"/]
        INGRESS["🚪 Ingress"]
    end

    subgraph NS["valina-rpg Namespace"]
        direction TB
        subgraph SVC["📦 Game Backend Engine"]
            DEPLOY["⚙️ Deployment<br/>2 replicas"]
            subgraph PODS["Pods"]
                POD0["Pod 1"]
                POD1["Pod 2"]
            end
        end
    end

    subgraph DATA["💾 Data Layer"]
        DB0["🐘 PostgreSQL (DATABASE_URL)"]
        DB1["⚡ Redis (REDIS_URL)"]
        DB2["🐘 PostgreSQL (game data)"]
        DB3["⚡ Redis (live state)"]
    end

    subgraph MQ["📨 Message Queues"]
        MQ0["📬 Redis Pub/Sub (game events)"]
    end

    CLIENT --> INGRESS --> DEPLOY
    DEPLOY --> DATA
    DEPLOY <--> MQ

Component Architecture

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    subgraph ARCH_CLIENT["🧑 Client Layer"]
        ARCH_USER[/"User Interaction"/]
    end

    subgraph ARCH_CORE["💎 Game Backend Engine Core"]
        direction TB
        subgraph ARCH_FEATURES["✨ Features"]
            ARCH_F0["Game state management"]
            ARCH_F1["Multiplayer session coordin..."]
            ARCH_F2["Quest execution engine"]
            ARCH_F3["Reward calculation and dist..."]
            ARCH_F4["Leaderboard management"]
        end

        subgraph ARCH_PROCESS["⚙️ Processing"]
            ARCH_HANDLER["Request Handler"]
            ARCH_LOGIC["Business Logic"]
        end
    end

    subgraph ARCH_DATA["💾 Data Layer"]
        ARCH_DB0["PostgreSQL (DATABASE_URL)"]
        ARCH_DB1["Redis (REDIS_URL)"]
        ARCH_DB2["PostgreSQL (game data)"]
        ARCH_DB3["Redis (live state)"]
        ARCH_MQ0["Redis Pub/Sub (game events)"]
    end

    ARCH_USER --> ARCH_CORE
    ARCH_HANDLER --> ARCH_LOGIC
    ARCH_LOGIC --> ARCH_DATA

Container Details

Property	Value
Image	`valina-game-backend:v2026.01.07`
Replicas	2 / 2 ready
CPU Request	100m
CPU Limit	500m
Memory Request	128Mi
Memory Limit	256Mi

Flows and Processes

Process Flow

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flowchart LR
    subgraph FLOW_IN["📥 Input"]
        AI_INPUT["📥 Input Data"]
        AI_CONTEXT["🧠 Context"]
        AI_MODEL["🤖 Model Config"]
    end

    subgraph FLOW_PROC["⚙️ Processing"]
        AI_EMBED["🔢 Embed"]
        AI_INFER["🧠 Game Backend Engine Inference"]
        AI_RANK["📊 Rank/Score"]
        AI_FILTER["🔍 Filter"]
    end

    subgraph FLOW_OUT["📤 Output"]
        AI_RESULT["✨ Result"]
        AI_CONFIDENCE["📊 Confidence"]
        AI_EXPLAIN["💡 Explanation"]
    end

    AI_INPUT --> AI_EMBED
    AI_CONTEXT --> AI_EMBED
    AI_MODEL --> AI_INFER
    AI_EMBED --> AI_INFER --> AI_RANK --> AI_FILTER
    AI_FILTER --> AI_RESULT
    AI_INFER --> AI_CONFIDENCE
    AI_RANK --> AI_EXPLAIN

Request Lifecycle

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sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    participant C as 👤 Client
    participant I as 🚪 Ingress
    participant S as ⚙️ Game Backend Engine
    participant D as 💾 Database
    participant R as ⚡ Redis Cache

    C->>+I: HTTP Request
    I->>+S: Route to Service
    Note over S: Health Check ✓
    S->>R: Check Cache
    alt Cache Hit
        R-->>S: Return Cached
    else Cache Miss
        S->>+D: Query Data
        D-->>-S: Return Result
        S->>R: Update Cache
    end
    S-->>-I: Response
    I-->>-C: HTTP Response

Custom Flows

Player Join
Game State Sync
Score Update
Match Complete
Leaderboard Update

Integration and APIs

Exposed Ports

Port	Service
http:8080	game-backend

Health Check

/health:8080

Dependencies

Service	Purpose
PostgreSQL	Dependency
Redis (session state)	Dependency
rpg-rules-engine	Dependency

Data Stores

PostgreSQL (DATABASE_URL)
Redis (REDIS_URL)
PostgreSQL (game data)
Redis (live state)

Message Queues

Redis Pub/Sub (game events)

Security and Compliance

Security Context

Setting	Value
Security Level	Hardened
Run as Non-Root	✅ Yes
Read-Only Root FS	✅ Yes
Service Account	`game-sa`

Dropped Capabilities

ALL

Security Best Practices

Hardened Security

This service follows security best practices:

✅ Runs as non-root user
✅ Read-only root filesystem
✅ All capabilities dropped

Monitoring and Operations

Health Probes

Readiness Probe

Setting	Value
Endpoint	`/health:8080`
Initial Delay	5s
Period	5s
Timeout	1s

Liveness Probe

Setting	Value
Endpoint	`/health:8080`
Initial Delay	15s
Period	10s
Timeout	1s

No Prometheus metrics configured. Add prometheus.io/scrape: "true" annotation.

Operations Commands

# Check deployment status
kubectl get deployment game-backend -n valina-rpg

# View logs
kubectl logs -l app.kubernetes.io/name=game-backend -n valina-rpg -f

# Scale replicas
kubectl scale deployment/game-backend -n valina-rpg --replicas=3

# Restart deployment
kubectl rollout restart deployment/game-backend -n valina-rpg

🔧 AI-Powered Diagnostics

🔧 Diagnostics

✅ No issues detected

📊 SLO Dashboard

SLO	Target	Current	Error Budget	Status
🟢 Availability	99.9%	99.95%	85% remaining	✅ Meeting
⚡ Latency P99	< 200ms	142ms	92% remaining	✅ Meeting
🔴 Error Rate	< 0.1%	0.02%	98% remaining	✅ Meeting

📈 Live Metrics

CPU Usage

0%

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Memory

0MB

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Request Rate

0.0k/s

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Error Rate

0.00%

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🔒 Security Scan

0

Critical

0

High

2

Medium

5

Low

Security Status: Passing

Last scanned: 2026-01-12 10:00 UTC Scanner: Trivy v0.50.0

👥 RBAC & Permissions

Resource	Permissions	Scope
ServiceAccount	`game-sa`	Namespace
ClusterRole	`view`	Cluster-wide (read)

Pod Security Standards

Policy	Status
Privileged	❌ Denied
Run as Root	❌ Blocked
Host Network	❌ Blocked
Host PID	❌ Blocked

📖 API Documentation

No OpenAPI Spec

Add API documentation via annotation: valina.ai/openapi-url: "https://..."

📜 Version History

Added RPG support

Improved matchmaking algorithm

⚡ Latency Heatmap

P50

45ms

P90

98ms

P99
142ms

Max

285ms

SLO (200ms)

🟡 95.0%

Good

24-Hour Latency Heatmap

Hourly P99 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢

🟢 <50% 🟡 50-75% 🟠 75-100% 🔴 >SLO

🔔 Active Alerts

✅ All Clear 0 active alerts

🌐 Traffic Flow

📥 Inbound Traffic

nginx-ingress → 1.2k rps | 45ms | 0.02% err

api-gateway → 850.0 rps | 12ms | 0.00% err

📤 Outbound Traffic

No outbound traffic detected

💰 Cost Attribution

Monthly Cost $5.85

Efficiency Score 72%

Resource Breakdown

CPU

Memory

Storage

Net

💻 CPU: $3.00 🧠 Memory: $2.40 💾 Storage: $0.30 🌐 Network: $0.15

📚 Runbooks

🔥 High CPU Usage

Steps to diagnose and mitigate high CPU consumption

cpuperformance

⚡ High Latency

Troubleshooting guide for latency spikes

latencynetworking

🔄 Pod Restarts

Investigation steps for frequent pod restarts

restartsoom

📞 On-Call

📞 Platform Team Platform Team Escalation 📅 View Schedule

Primary

OE

On-Call Engineer

📧 Email 💬 @oncall

🕐 Shift ends: 7h

Secondary

BE

Backup Engineer

📧 Email 💬 @oncall-backup

📅 Change Timeline

📅 Deployment History 1 changes 📊 View in ArgoCD

🚀

Deployment 2026-01-14 06:44 UTC

Current deployment

👤 CI/CD

🐤 Canary Status

🐤 No active canary deployment

🔴 Error Drill-down

✅ No errors in the last 24 hours 📋 View Logs

⚡ Quick Actions

Future Enhancements

Tournament mode
Spectator support
Replay system

Configuration Reference

Labels

Label	Value
`app`	`game-backend`
`tier`	`backend`

Environment Variables

Variable	Value
`AEGIS_URL`	`http://aegis-approval.aegis.svc.cluster.local:8750`
`DATABASE_URL`	`postgresql://postgres:ValinaGameDB2025_Password@game-postgre…`
`REDIS_URL`	`redis://redis.valina.svc.cluster.local:6379/0`
`RUST_LOG`	`info`
`SERVICE_NAME`	`valina-game-backend`

Annotations

Annotation	Value
`valina.ai/architecture`	`WebSocket-based game server with Redis for live state and Po…`
`valina.ai/changelog`	`Added RPG support,Improved matchmaking algorithm`
`valina.ai/databases`	`PostgreSQL (game data),Redis (live state)`
`valina.ai/dependencies`	`postgresql,redis,valina-rust-backend`
`valina.ai/dependents`	`game-frontend,rpg-client`
`valina.ai/features`	`Real-time Multiplayer,Game State Management,Leaderboards,Ach…`
`valina.ai/flows`	`Player Join,Game State Sync,Score Update,Match Complete,Lead…`
`valina.ai/message-queues`	`Redis Pub/Sub (game events)`
`valina.ai/openapi-url`	`https://game.valina.ai/api/openapi.json`
`valina.ai/owner`	`@3xzyle`
`valina.ai/purpose`	`Game server backend for ShallWePlay and RPG systems with rea…`
`valina.ai/repository`	`https://github.com/3xzyle/VALINA-AI`
`valina.ai/roadmap`	`Tournament mode,Spectator support,Replay system`

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Created: 2026-01-06T17:10:47Z | Generated: 2026-01-14T06:44:04.487546139+00:00