Show HN: CloudParty – play games with friends in the cloud
Disclaimer: we are very alpha.
TL:DR; We are building a service were users can easily spin-up private game servers to play with friends.
Basically we support launching VM on multiple cloud providers (mainly thanks to jclouds), then we provision a game server via docker container on a vanilla ubuntu 14.04, finally the user can get the IP address of the VM and play.
Game servers are launched with pre-defined configurations, but the user can override the command line flags of the game server and restart it, directly from the control panel.
With this platform, we would also love to help multiplayer indie developers to host and sell their shiny new game server to users.
If there are HN gamers reading this, feel free to suggest any game that you should be available.