mdubie / astonishingmosquito

Synth

Synth is the latest intersection between music and gaming. This addictive web game syncs game difficulty with your preferred playlist, and gives you an unique experience every time you load a new song. Tee up your favorite playlist for hours of addictive play and listening.

Table of Contents

1. Usage
2. Requirements
3. Installing Dependencies
4. Team
5. Contribute

Usage

Start playing now at [http://www.synthgame.com] (http://www.synthgame.com)

Requirements

• React
• Redux
• Redis
• PIXI
• RXJS
• NodeJS
• Express

Installing Dependencies

Install Redis

brew install redis

then, from within the root directory:

npm install

npm start

Possible Directions

• Multiplayer
• Collectable beatboxes (It's already mostly hooked up for movement)
• Leaderboards
• Multiple filter types (lowpass + bandpass + highpass filter, literally just setting a type)
• Magik

Technical Improvements

• Store the ideal threshold (AudioController->GetIdealThreshold) in the database. This will improve load times ~75%.

Architecture

The client and the server are completely separate Implements a couple of core paradigms from http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ -- specifically the Observer pattern and the Command pattern. Webapp surrounding the game has a typical redux store and fetches songs from the server. The game also has a redux store in which all game entities and game controllers are stored. This is to avoid globals/singletons. Webapp listens to the Game store via the Game->addEventListener method. Feel free to ask questions.

Orienting in the Codebase

1. Start at client/index.js, App, AppStore
2. navigate to the clientapp directory, familiarize with LibraryView, LibraryModel
3. Familiarize with GameView, GameModel
4. Navigate to the client/game directory, familiarize with Game.js, GameStore
5. Entity, Player, Beatbox, Wave
6. Controller, CollisionDetector, AudioController

Team AstonishingMosquito

• Architecture and Code Review: [Shea Hawkins] (https://github.com/shea-hawkins)
• Git Management and Deployment: [Jay Arella] (https://github.com/arellaTV)
• Project Management: [Jennifer Ong] (https://github.com/jbarbettini)

Contributions

See our Style Guide and Contribution Guidelines for reference