#Breakbrain
Social network to improve mental skills by mean of mini-games
Breakbrain is a complex social network oriented to improve mental skills by mean of multiplayer and single-player mini-games playing. It has been built on top of NodeJS, using MongoDB as persistence system. Breakbrain has been thought to support 3rd-party games integration, so you can be a part of the developing community if you want, allowing other users to play your games. It is awesome, isn't it?
Breakbrain offers you a stats dashboard where you can see your mental skills evolution and compare it with other users one. Furthermore, this social network integrates a recommendation module to tip you about what games you must play (based on your skills) and which players you could follow.
Social aspects are really simple: you can follow other users, to see their evolution and news and play multi-player games against them, and other users can follow you.
First of all you need NodeJS installed on your computer. It's really easy; you can find downloads and documentation in the official NodeJS website.
In the case you are using Ubuntu GNU/Linux, it is even easier:
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs
Once you have NodeJS correctly installed, you must be able to see node's version. In my case:
$ node -v
v0.8.5
Once NodeJS is installed on your system, the next step is to install MongoDB database. As in the previous case, it is easy to install, using the official downloads and documentation.
Remember that GNU/Linux simplifies your life. With Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install mongodb
After installing MongoDB, you must be able to check everything works ok. In my case:
$ mongo --version
MongoDB shell version: 2.2.3
When NodeJS and MongoDB are working properly, you are ready to install Breakbrain in your machine. To do it, just follow these steps:
- Download this repository as a ZIP file into a known directory. Alternatively, if you have git you can clone this repository directly.
git clone https://github.com/sgmonda/breakbrain
- Go into the downloaded directory with a terminal.
cd breakbrain
- Install the dependences:
$ npm install
- Using Breakbrain platform now is very easy, just start the server:
$ node server.js
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:48:45 (GMT) :: DATABASE: Connecting to MongoDB database...
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:48:46 (GMT) :: DATABASE: Connected and authenticated successfully
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:48:46 (GMT) :: EMAIL-MODULE: Email subsystem ready to send emails
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:48:46 (GMT) :: GAMES-MODULE: Loading games server...
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:48:46 (GMT) :: WEB SERVER: running on port 20661
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:48:46 (GMT) :: GAMES-MODULE: Loading game "Un juego"... in Working memory (Memory)
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:48:47 (GMT) :: WEBSOCKETS SERVER: running on port 20661
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:48:47 (GMT) :: MAIN SERVER: The whole server is ready!
- Now you can open the following page in a web browser
http://localhost:20661
That's all. Enjoy Breakbrain!