Keyboard Warriors
| URL | http://keyboardwarriors.2016.rubyrampage.com/ |
|---|---|
| Project Type | Web |
| Server | Heroku |
| Database | Postgresql |
| Backend | Ruby, Rails |
| Frontend | CoffeeScript, Foundation, jQuery |
| Templates | SLIM |
| Version Control | Git, Github |
| Other | ActionCable, WebSockets |
Basic Overview
Taking part in the 2016 Ruby Rampage hackathon, I entered as a solo team to participate. The hackathon was a 48-hour non-stop challenge to make the most interesting web application possible within the available time, and with the help of a lot of coffee, I managed to make a multiplayer real-time speed typing battle game using rails ActionCable and WebSockets.
The game involves creating 'gatherings', which have a real-time chatroom for contenders to talk to eachother pre-game, when a gethering is at full capacity it can be initiated into a game, which is a real-time typing battle, the first to a set amount of points wins, each game can have a variety of difficulty settings, the harder the difficulty the longer and more complicated the words are. As a solo team there are many aspects I couldn't complete, such as pretty much 0 design and still many problems, but I will take this on in the future and want to make an improved version to release. This was my first hackathon experience and was a lot of fun, and a great learning experience being able to see and review other competitors projects and codebases, something I will definately be taking part in again in the future. Click here to for the repository.
Skills and Knowledge used
- ActionCable and websockets for real-time communication between client and server.
- Rapid development and planning to deliver a final project in a short space of time.
- Jobs and background processes to deliver the real-time responses.
- enumerization and serialization.
- Authentication and OAuth with Devise.