A clone of the Adventure Capitalist game (http://en.gameslol.net/adventure-capitalist-1086.html) done in angular.
To run the application you must have the following prerequisites:
- npm (https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm)
- angular CLI tools (https://cli.angular.io/ or
npm install -g @angular/cli)
First, run npm install in the root directory to install the required components. To run, type ng serve and it will launch a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.
The project scope was limited to the following functions:
- Buy businesses
- Upgrade businesses
- Make money from a business
- Hire managers (automatically make money from a business)
- Money from idle time (while the window is closed) is calculated and earned
- Mockup of some achievements
This clone focuses mainly on the front-end application, due to it being an angular application. Code is only run when an browser window is open and never run any other time (aside from the node server which only serves angular). Money made while idle is calculated based on the stored timestamps for each business when the window opens each time. Any partially run business will therefore pickup where it left off when the window is re-opened.
All data is stored in LocalStorage in the browser as JSON strings. Timestamps are stored in millisecond time. LocalStorage data is refreshed when:
- A business scores
- Anything is purchased (manager, business, upgrade)
- Data is loaded from the seed JSON file
Storing the businesses with timestamps as opposed to continually running the server allows the user to even make money when their computer is turned off. It also makes deploying or running the game headache free as the user only needs to have npm installed to run it.
Seed data is stored in the src/static/json folder. On the first run of the game, or any run where the data in the seed file does not exist in LocalStorage, seed data is retreived and stored in LocalStorage.
As this is a non-social game (as per scope), there was no reason to run the game code server side. I have used angular in the past so it was chosen out of familiarity to me.
Bootstrap has all the components required to make this application with very minimal modifications to the code.
Tradeoffs and TODO / left out functionality.
Currently, a savvy user could just edit the LocalStorage JSON data and increase their money / business / etc (but what's the fun in that?). Would be potentially worth it to encrypt this data on storage so that it would be more difficult to change.
Although the business scoring is timestamp based, there is a chance that two browser windows opened simultaneously could cause the business to "double score". This may be solved by awarding a single (first opened) window the master title and only allowing it to score the business. I have not yet produced this error so for now it is just something to look out for.