mesalcode / game_launcher

game launcher for 8th grades informatics class

Game launcher - WP2, 8th grade

General

• able to launch self programmed online/offline games and simulations
• can handle third party programs/games (addable by user and preinstalled)

Application list

Games

• Atari Tennis (retro game, see wikipedia article)
• Pac-Man (retro game, see wikipedia article)
• CatchThatFish (fishing game, inspired by Cat goes Fishing)
• Cloooowns (bloon pop game)

Software

• FT2 (drawing tool)

Context

Graded half years school project for WP2 informatics class (8th Grade, started March 2020)

Updates

This project will not be maintained after the end of the projects time span. This means, there will be no feature updates, content updates or bug fixes after the deadline.

Setup

In this paragraph, there will be instructions on how to setup the backend and the game launcher itself on your computer, and how to change configurations.

1. Clone or download repository

To begin with, you will need to clone/download the repository to your computer.

There are two ways to do so

Way 1:
If you already have installed git to your path you can simple use the following command to clone the repo.
git clone https://github.com/Mesalcode/game_launcher.git

Way 2:
The other way is to download the repository in form of a zip file.
To do so click on the ,,Clone or download" button you can see over the files of this repository.
Then, you need to click on Download ZIP, which will download the whole repository in form of a ZIP-file.

2. Install NodeJS and modules

For the installation of NodeJS please refer to the official NodeJS download page, which will list several ways of installing NodeJS on your computer. Attention! Make sure that NodeJS ends up beeing in your PATH, as this is gonna be necessary in the following steps.
When you completed this step, you will need to install the needed NodeJS modules.
You will find the command, you have to run in the command prompt/shell, when following the links listed.

3. Install and setup your MongoDB database

Instructions on how to setup your MongoDB database can be found official MongoDB manual. Make sure to setup password security aswell.

Implementation

• Frontend/User interface: Native Processing and using its processing-sound library
• Backend: Portable NodeJS server interacting with MongoDB database, receiving fetches using Express - MEN-Stack (MEAN without Angular)

NodeJS modules

• Express
• MongoDB
• Readline