Codenames is a multiplayer single page application (SPA) based on Czech Games's Codenames where users compete by guessing words from the board based on their teammate’s one-word clues.
Players can invite friends to play with them by giving them their unique room code.
Players split into 2 teams, orange and purple.
Each team designates a 'spymaster' who will be giving clues to their teammates for the entire round.
The spymasters of each team click 'spymaster view' on their own screen to see which words they will attempt to get their teammates to guess.
The spymasters from each team take turns to provide a one-word clue and the number of cards they feel it relates to. Using this clue, the other players on the team must pick which word cards from the board they think the spymaster is hinting at.
If a player chooses a card that doesn’t correspond to one of their own, that team’s turn instantly ends. Any cards corresponding to the opponent team, result in the opposing team scoring. If the hidden bomb (red card) is chosen, the active team immediately loses the game. Otherwise, the winning team is whichever side successfully guesses all their words first.
View the official rules here.
Users can:
- create a game
- join an existing game
- enjoy multiplayer gameplay in real time via websockets
- create a new round (in the same game room) once a round ends
- Ruby on Rails
- VS code with Live Server extension
- PostgreSQL
Clone both the frontend and the backend repositories onto your machine using git clone.
cd into the backend repository
Run bundle install to download the necessary gems.
Run rails db:create && rails db:migrate to create the database and the migrations.
Run rails db:seed to seed the database.
Run rails s to start the rails server.
cd into the frontend repository:
Click 'Go Live' in the bottom right corner of the VS Code editor (if you don't see this, make sure you have the Live Server extension installed).
This will run the application on a local port and open it in your default browser.