Watch the Screens

An App for Watch the Skies®

Table of contents

• General info
• Demo
• Code
• References
• App Role Showcase
• Use Cases
• Software Architecture Overview
• Technologies
• Setup
• Team

General Info

Watch the Screens is a communication app for gamers to use in real-time while playing Watch the Skies, see references below for more info on game play.

Generations Working to Facilitate Watch The Screens, A Pilot Project of the Watch the Skies® Gameplay

Demo

Heroku: Watch The Screens Current: Live App (this version dependent on Admin deployment of game)

Github Repository

Github: Watch The Screens Future Dev Rollout: TBD

References

"Watch the Skies" video: Watch the Skies! is a 70-person MegaGame pitting teams of players against one another as the nations of Earth… or as an extraterrestrial menace! ... If you want to play with just one friend, Corporations and Media are for teams-of-two.

App Role Showcase

• User: Read only privilages; Reads the current WTS events.
• Reporter Player: May create and read articles as needed; the reporter will have inteviewed a country and create an article of incoming news story(ies).
• Admin Player: Create/read articles of news stories; updates though changes things adhoc; reset time; adding increments and more; May delete game informational events for tactic/activity/benchmark(s) currently in play (ie.add round time, update streaming-articles to show/suppress viewing, etc.) as needed.

Use Cases

• Feature: Play the game

• Scenario: User joins a game The first example has three steps Given the Admin has started a game When the User joins the current (Admin's) game Then the User is able to view all current articles, round time remaining,

• Scenario: Maker starts a game --- Admin starts a game The second example has five steps Given the Admin has started a game When the Admin waits for a Reporter to join Then the admin assings role of Reporter When a Reporter wants to create an article the form page populates Then the Reporter posts the written article for game-wide display

Software architecture overview

The user interface of this application shall be a single page application
for each given role assigned to a player based on Bootstrap, Handlebars, 
Sockets and Sequilizer and others listed in the Technologies section.

Technologies

Project is created with:

* Bootstrap version: 4.3.1
* Dotenv: 6.0.0
* Express: 4.6.4
* Express-handlebars": 3.0.0
* Moment: 2.24.0
* Moment-duration-format: 2.2.2
* Marquee: 1.5.0
* Mysql2: 1.6.5
* Sequelize: 5.5.0
* Socket.io: 2.2.0
* Socket.io-client: 2.2.0

Setup

To run this project, from your bash window, locally install using npm:

$ cd ../your-cloned-repo-root
$ npm install
$ npm start

Team

CPJanz |EwRicklefs | QuietEvolver| Panzemek

Enjoy!