Murphydbuffalo / bananagrams

Multiplayer bananagrams

Bananagrams

To start your Phoenix app:

• Install dependencies with mix deps.get
• Create and migrate your database with mix ecto.create && mix ecto.migrate
• Install Node.js dependencies with npm install
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phoenix.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.

TODO

• Find out how to have WebSocket.listen accept different Msg sub types based on the content of the string returned from the server

  • The elm-phoenix-socket library may have clues as to how to do this.

• JSON encoding and decoding so that Elm can communicate with Phoenix (there's an elm package for this)

• How do you want to handle spelling? Passing the entire updated board as an argument? Only the diff?

  • Will need to subscribe to mouse drag events to handle the submission updates to the players' boards

• Styling and layout: FlexBox? Drag n' drop tiles, no submit button, better favicon, font & graphics

• Differentiate the user's player from the other players.

  • Their board should look distinct; be larger, centered, and styled differently.

• Make sure players have unique identifiers

• Break up App.elm into modules

• Put our value for Random.initialSeed into an environment variable

• Implement a varied tilesPerPlayer and numberOfTiles based on # of players

  • For a game with 4 or fewer players each player get 21 tiles.
  • For a game of 5 or 6 players each player gets 15 tiles.
  • For a game of 7 or 8 players each player gets 11 tiles.

• Lobby/start screen: players should be able to join the game and chat before starting

• In game chat (will be implemented as part of the start screen/lobby)

• Victory UI: something should pop up when the game is over

• Timer, track the length of the game

• Sessions: players should be able to resume their game after network trouble (store state on server processes)

• Persistence: Store player names, friends, wins/losses, longest/most uncommon words, etc