Player-specific colors and names

[thesauri]

Players could have different colors

• Should there be a difference only between you and all other players, i.e. you are say blue and the rest black?
• Should every player have a unique color?
• Is this color randomized?
• Does the player pick a color before joining the game? Pick in game?

[thesauri]

• Players are assigned a random name (e.g. adjective + creature) and color when joining
  • Done in the frontend and notified to the server
  • No actual persistence of names, clients can assign names as they wish and is only valid during the session
• Players can change the name after joining if they desire, this updates the name but not the color
• Lines and words are drawn according to the players' colors

[Pingviinituutti]

I suppose this could just be implemented via session cookies? Then we could just store the name and colour of the player on a per game basis in the cookie.

However, this could lead to some players having the same colour if the colour pool is not big enough. But I don't think that's a bad thing.