Facilitator / Non-player access to game state

[sridharraman]

Hi

We are building a multi-player game where players make moves simultaneously. That's been fine so far. I was wondering what would be the best practice to create a "dashboard" for facilitator/non-player to view the game state. Is that possible?

Going through the documentation, I came up with a couple of approaches:

1. Using Storage to store the game state in a database (flatfile / postgres) and then building another small web app that accesses the db for the Dashboard
2. Some way of creating an "observer" as a non-player in the game and give them read-only access to the game state

Is there a recommended way of doing this? Have I missed any other approach?