Christmas rELFolution!

Welcome to the rELFolution!

The elves are up in arms over poor pay and long Christmas working hours! Using your trusty gingerbread HR team and their candycane bribes - try to stop the elves walking out on Christmas eve! YOU MUST SAVE CHRISTMAS!!!

Project Overview

For our Makers Engineering project 2 we have chosen to build a game using JavaScript and HTML Canvas. We considered using an engine such as Unity to assist but then decided that we would learn much more by coding it by using Vanilla JS. We looked into different types of game to create including

.IO
Simple multiplayer puzzle
Side scrolling platformer
Top down racing game

We finally decided on a top down tower defense style game which we could host on Heroku or GitHub pages.

Game Features

Game should load with the start screen with a 'Play' button
Game board should load with no elves or weapons in play
Elves should slowly spawn at the left of the screen and walk to the right
Players are able to drag and drop gingerbread men weapons from the toolbar into the paths of incoming elves
Gingerbread weapons should cost Christmas Spirit to purchase
Gingerbread men should throw candycanes at the elves to stop them
Players current Christmas spirit should be displayed in the toolbar
After enough candycane impacts the elves are defeated and will leave the game
If any elves hit the right of the screen the player loses and their score should be displayed
Once all elves are defeated the player wins and the winning screen will be displayed

Additional features

Multiple weapon types with different abilities
Multiple types of elves with different abilities
Christmas spirit is generated for each elf defeated
Elves have a number of hit points
Weapons have attack points
Background music should play
Sounds should play on elf hit and elf / weapon defeat
Elf, weapons and bullet sprites should have a basic animation

Getting Started

Prerequisites

To run this app locally first clone this repo https://github.com/racldn/ChristmasRelfolution
Open index.html in your browser.
Tadaaa the game will run.

Running the tests

Run the below for testing SpecRunner.html Front end testing was carried out manually by the users after developing each new feature.

Deployment

Christmas rElfolution is deployed using GitHub pages.

Technologies

HTML5
CSS
JavaScript
Canvas
GIMP (Image editor)
Jasmine (unit test)

Working Methodologies

Agile
Trello - project management tool
2 day sprints
Daily Stand-ups (10:00)
Retros (16:00) every 2 days
Pair programming
A separate git branches for each new feature
Code review before merging pull requests

Authors

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Plants Vs Zombies for the inspiration (https://www.ea.com/studios/popcap/plants-vs-zombies) Thanks to Santa for keeping it real.

nazzkadri / christmasrelfolution Goto Github PK