gorfreed / workland

WorkLand is an 8bit metaverse for tech teams. Team members can gather in WorkLand, manage projects, track tasks and get work done. WorkLand also features a break room and built in 'Snapchat'.

Welcome to WorkLand

About

WorkLand is a metaverse for tech teams. Team members can gather in WorkLand, manage projects, track tasks and get work done. WorkLand also features a break room.

• Motivation
• Demo
• Features
• Tech Stack
• Installation
• Known Issues
• Credits

Motivation

WorkLand is made by three developers, Johnny, Jose and Carrie as a coding bootcamp demo project. As a remote team, we wanted to create something fun that fosters connectivity and boosts productivity at the same time.

Demo

Deployed on Netlify: WorkLand. Server hosted on Heroku. Browser needs to support 3rd party cookies.

Features

Instruction

MMORPG-like Environment

Live GIF Chat

Work Area

Project Management

Task Management

Kanban board

Break Room

3D Globe

Shows location based on IP address of WorkLanders

Guitar - thanks to React-Guitar

Guitar.Demo.mov

Piano

Aracade Machine

Tech Stack

• Built using JavaScript, React, Redux(RTK)
• Back end used TypeScript, Node, Express, OAuth, passport, CORS
• Socket.io used for multiplayer movement and Snapchat-styled instant GIF messaging
• NES.CSS and RPGUI used for retro game styling
• React-beautiful-DND used for drag and drop on the Kanban page

Database

• PostgreSQL

Installation

Clone the repository with git:

git clone [email protected]:cgm42/WorkLand.git

Install dependencies in the client folder with npm:

npm run workland

Install dependencies in the server folder:

npm i

Known Issues

A small number of users seem to experience log in issues sometimes - refer to Issue #60

Credits

Pixel Art

Character sprites coursty of Drew Conley, used under MIT license. Licensed interior and office assets purchased from itch.io.

Tutorials

To be updated.

Inspirations

Inspired by WorkAdventure and Gather.