Eat A Beat

A 2D game generated from a song, powered by Spotify. This project won 1st place on Spotify DevX Hackathon 2018. The game may be accessed at eatabeat.herokuapp.com.

The team

Joakim Berntsson
Raha Dadgar
Iman Radjavi
Simon Takman

Game design

Summary of game features:

Song tempo decides the speed of the obstacles
Obstacles are spawned for each beat
The average pitch of a beat decides the position of the obstacle
The confidence of the beat decides the size of the obstacle

Design

Backend

Developed using node.js with the following technologies:

Express
Spotify Web API

Frontend

Developed using the following technologies:

JQuery
Pixie.js
Spotify Player
Cookie.js
Particles

Setup & run

If you want to run this yourself, follow the following steps:

Clone this reposity
Create a file .env in the root of the repository
Create an application at spotify developer site
Add callback to localhost:3000 on the spotify application
Insert your spotify client ID and SECRET inside the .env file as SPOTIFY_ID=... and SPOTIFY_SECRET=...