/higherlowergame

Higher/lower game

Primary LanguageJava

Higher Lower game

See live demo (if up).

Technologies used

  • Java 17 + Spring Boot 3
  • PostgreSQL + Liquibase
  • Svelte + Tailwind for UI

Assignment

  • Build a simple game of higher or lower using given movie database. For example http://www.higherlowergame.com/

  • Game rules:

    • Player can choose which category they want to play with (vote average, popularity, run time, revenue)
    • Player is given 2 different movies with chosen category value revealed
    • Player has to choose if the value on the 2nd movie is higher or lower than the chosen category of the 1st one
    • If the player chose correctly, the game continues, the 2nd movie will replace the first one, and a new movie is loaded for comparison
    • Game ends when the player makes an incorrect guess
    • Movies with same category values shouldn't be matched together

  • Resources:

    • For the task h2 database with table movie is given. Table contains data about 4798 movies.
    • Table columns are original_title, overview, popularity, release_date, revenue, runtime, tagline, title, vote_average, vote_count

  • Main tasks:

    • Build a Java console application using Java 1.8 or newer (we recommend using Java 17) which allows to play a game of "higher or lower"
    • Build a normal game mode with the rules from above
    • Build a hard game mode where at least every second round is between 2 movies that are closely ranked. For example if previous movies was with vote_average 7.9 then 2nd movie should be between values 7.7 and 8.1.
    • Player can choose between different game modes after each game
    • Remember the current highest score achieved for both game modes
    • At least title should be given for every movie, but feel free to add also additional info like (overview, tagline, original title, release date, tagline)
    • Feel free to add any more functionalities you think would be cool to add

  • For additional credit:

    • Instead of console application, build a simple UI for the game, using your preferred framework (We prefer Angular, but feel free to use any Javascript framework you like)

  • Our expectations:

    • Your code is available on GitHub or any other VCS
    • Your code is clean and logically structured
    • Game logic is separated from other functionalities
    • Your code has tests where necessary
    • You are ready to explain your game & code
    • You are aware of the possible bugs in your game & code

    Development/building

    You can use docker compose to build and initialize the app immediately.

    docker compose up --build -d

    Alternatively for smoother development:

    • start DB docker compose up --build higherlower-db -d
    • in ui folder, npm start or use IDEA run configuration Start UI
    • for server, use the Start Server IDEA run configuration and use the same environment variables as in .env

    For tests, use the preconfigured Test UI in IDEA, with the Docker DB started.