Dungeon multiplayer game that can be played single- or multi-device.
You and other adventurers want to kill all the monsters lurking in a dungeon. But you're not a team: only one player can enter the dungeon, impersonating a previously chosen hero character.
In every round the players either remove pieces of the hero's equipment or add monsters in the dungeon, making the quest more difficult every time. At some point the players will start stepping back in turns, giving up the task to the last brave or reckless player standing. You succeed in the dungeon if you can kill all monsters before they take all your character's hit points.
This process will be repeated many times, with different hero characters. You will be out of the game if you're killed in the dungeon twice. Otherwise you will win if you survive the dungeon twice or if every other player is out of the game.
This project was generated using Nx.
🔎 Nx is a set of Extensible Dev Tools for Monorepos.
Nx chosen presets make use of:
- Angular for the front-end.
- Node.js and NestJS for the back-end.
- Both Angular and NestJS make use of TypeScript.
- Jest framework for writing and running tests.
Other libraries and dependencies I use:
- Angular Material for theming.
- Swiper for slider component.
- jest-extended for additional Jest matchers.
- ng-mocks for Angular-specific mocking functionality.
in progress
Currently working on the one-device side of the front-end app. A first prototype is ready, but there are many tasks pending, to be accomplished in the following order:
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UX improvements. The current prototype involves a lot of notifications and dialogs. Parts of the game sequence could be joined together to make the gameplay smoother. Besides, there is more information on the game state that could be provided to the user during the gameplay.
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Refactor Angular components. There is a lot of code duplication that could be abstracted away as pure UI components. This should be accomplished before working on UI details and tests.
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Two essential UI-related tasks pending:
- Make the design responsive. The app is being developed in a mobile-first approach and is currently designed for a standard 360x640 mobile viewport size.
- Define a theme with colors and images so that the app has a more "game-like" flavour.
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Write tests for Angular components.
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Refactor models. With some minor tweaks models could be neater and more consistent.
2021-Sep-16:
- First prototype of one-device side of the front-end app is ready.
2021-Jul-28:
- Start new updated nx boilerplate.
A prototype of the single-device version of the game is deployed in Heroku and can be played here.
This project serves only a learning purpose: to deepen my knowledge of Angular, become acquainted with unit testing and with back-end development. The game is closely inspired by a board game I played with my housemates, so I claim no originality with regard to its rules and content.
Created by Darío Scattolini. Feel free to contact me!