noGame

Was built by Aleandre Benat and Peter Sekan during the Ironhack Web Dev RMT Bootcamp Feb. 2023 as a learning project. It is a simple adaption of the famous OGame. One of the most popular browser games ever.

here a link to try it: https://nogame.adaptable.app/

Disclaimer

Don’t clone this repo, unless you know what your doing! You might have noticed that our repo contains a node_modules directory. This is caused due issues during the deployment process and the lack of time that asked for a quick solution. We might fix this later but know promises.

Installation guide

1. Make sure you have Mongo DB and Mongo Compass installed
2. Fork and clone this project to your local machine
3. cd noGame
4. Because our repository contains all ready all npm modules, no need to run npm i
5. Create a .env file in your applications root directory
6. Run node .bin/seeds.js to populate your data base
7. For development, make sure you have Nodemon installed and run npm run dev
8. Just for playing the game just run npm start

.env File

PORT=3000
SESS_SECRET = "<YOUR SESSION SECRET>"
MONGODB_URI = "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/nogame-project"

How to play?

1. Visit NoGame
2. Create an account
3. Log in
4. Create your first planet
5. Add a building
6. Harvest resources
7. Level up your buildings

Sorry, no high-score board for now!

Tools

This application was buit with:

• Express JS
• Handlebars JS
• Mongo DB
• Bootstrap
• Feather Icons
• Themestrap

If you want to build an Express JS app, try Ironlauncher! It provides a very nice boilerplate for your project with authentification, and other goodies!

It was deployed on:

• Mongo Atlas
• Adabtable

Learning Achievements

Alexandre:

Game logic, secure routes and synchrosity of the stats between front and back end.

Pete:

Don’t use custom CSS, only Bootstrap. Learn about using Mongo DB and Handlebars.