Clue Ride

What is Clue Ride?

Clue Ride is a scavenger hunt on bicycles, with strong leanings toward crowd-sourced community involvement.

There is one application for playing the game and another application for adding and maintaining the network of paths and attractions that guide cyclists safely around the city.

Badges are awarded as "seekers" and "guides" develop their skills in maintaining the games paths and attractions.

Technologies

Main layers

Java-based Web Application running under Tomcat
Angular front-end for mobile browsers
Currently using JSON and XML for storage of routes and data; plan to move toward POSTGreSQL with Geo-Spatial extensions.

Back-end Libraries (Java)

Guice for Dependency Injection
Jersey for REST API
GeoTools for handling route geometries

Front-end Libraries

AngularJS for overall structure
UI-Angular for Bootstrap look-and-feel within Angular
Leaflet for Maps (Open Street Maps for layers)
Library for using camera from within mobile browser

Infrastructure

Maven (considering gradle)
Git / GitHub
TestNG for Java Unit Testing
Jasmine for JavaScript Unit Tests
HTTPS for encrypted sessions