plumpmath / vera-game

a game to visualize the over-reliance on jails

Reduce, Rethink, End the Cycle:

A game about Utilizing Reform to #RethinkJails

• By: Luisa Miranda, Kindred Motes, Robert Schroeder, Kristi Riley, Dan Taeyoung, Vere van Gool, Jordan White
• Created at NEW INC's Create and Advocate event
• For/With: The Vera Institute of Justice
  • with Kindred Motes (Digital Community Manager @ Vera Institute) and Kristi Riley (Program Associate @ Vera Institute)
• Two days of work: April 15 - April 16, 2017

Play:

https://dantaeyoung.github.io/VERA-game/

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Development & Editing:

Development start:

• npm start
• Go to http://localhost:8000
• EVERYTHING is client-side.

How to change data:

Simple way:

• Edit assets/card_descriptions.json, assets/card_impacts.json, assets/glossary.json.

Comprehensive way:

• Go to Google spreadsheet url
• Copy-paste each sheet into http://www.convertcsv.com/csv-to-json.htm
  • In Step 2:
    • Check First row is column names
    • Set Field Separator: Tab
  • In Step 5:
    • Click CSV to Keyed JSON
• Copy the results into http://jsonlint.com/ and click Validate Json to make sure JSON is validated.
• Save results by overwriting what's in assets/card_descriptions.json, assets/card_impacts.json, asssets/glossary.json.

ALSO: don't edit assets/pipeline-diagram.svg willy-nilly. The object/layer names are carefully named to correspond to the data.