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+import { Status, ICreateLobby, colours, spaceships } from "common";
+import { WebsocketEvent } from "@/types/WebsocketEvent";
+import { Player } from "@/objects/Player";
+import { Game } from "@/objects/Game";
+
+const data: WebsocketEvent = {
+	name: "req:lobby.create",
+	handler(_, socket, data: ICreateLobby) {
+
+		// Assert that the user's name conforms to a small subset of unicode to
+		// help prevent weird errors from occuring due to potentially violating
+		// strings and running code through the name entry.
+		if (data.name.match(/[^A-Za-z0-9\_\-]/)) {
+			socket.emit(`res:lobby.create`, {
+				success: Status.BadRequest,
+				message: `Can't use special characters in your name, only A-Z, 0-9, underscores, and dashes are allowed.`,
+			});
+		};
+
+		// Create the game:
+		let host = new Player(socket, {
+			name: data.name,
+			colour: colours[Math.floor(Math.random() * colours.length)],
+			ship: spaceships[0],
+		});
+		let game = new Game(host);
+		game.log.info(`New game created by ${data.name}`)
+	},
+};
+export default data;
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