xin00163 / mmog

Strepkills

Visit http://strepsils.herokuapp.com/game to play Join our chatroom here Current version: 1.0.0

What is Strepkills?

Strepkills was made as a one week group challenge- it aims to be a multiplayer game with a real-time chat and minimalist gameplay. It can be played on your browser and features your player avatar (or a 'strepsil') which is matched up with other player controlled avatars vying for dominion over the board.

Our one-line goal

A real-time browser-based game which facilitates multiple players on individual clients.

Prerequisites

• Ruby v 2.4.1

  get the latest verson here: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

• PostgreSQL v10.1

  get here: https://gist.github.com/sgnl/609557ebacd3378f3b72

Running on localhost

$ git clone https://github.com/Xin00163/mmog.git
$ cd mmog
$ bundle install
$ rails db:create
$ rails db:migrate
$ rails s
go to http://localhost:3000 in browser

To run tests:

$ rspec

Technologies

Tech	Description
Ruby on Rails	To create a website to host games
ActionCable	Integrates WebSockets with Rails
Redis gem	In-memory data-structure store and cache
Rubyracer gem	Evaluates and reads JS and Ruby
PostgreSQL	Database of choice
RSpec	Testing framework for Ruby code

Creation to release

• Keeping scalability in mind we created a game hub website, to easily host many different games in the future and to provide players with their individual profiles.
• During the conception of the game our team decided to use the fewest number of pre-created frameworks as possible, and as a result we made an original game framework from scratch.
• Our starting point was creating a chatroom using ActionCable to simultaenously send mesages to multiple users, and we applied the same methodology to our game.
• As a result Strepkills incorporates WebSockets for seamless connections and after many iterations of improvements it is optimised for fast, responsive gameplay.

Our team

Keran, Rhys, Tim, Varun, Xin Honourary tester: Umair

View our end-of-week presentation here- http://slides.com/rspecgod/strepsil-wars#/