Adventure time!
A custom 404 page - in fact a text adventure - for my home page csokavar.hu. The site has a few hidden features to discover and a text adventure felt like a nice addition, with the hope of bringing back the feel of the classic genre for the 5 minutes one might want to spend on it.
The plot starts with the promising Ouch, that hurts! What's this darkness? Where is everyone? question and the player is expected to investigate the situation.
It's a bit corny, but the whole project is meant to be a little parody and made with ❤️.
You will run into pop cultural references in every corner.
The game is written in TypeScript in a rather functional style, with immutable data structures. State and command goes in, new state and message goes out. You get the idea.
The interaction follows the traditional verb + object pattern but the parser tolerates some variations. I/O is delegated to xterm.js for authenticity and uses ANSI escape sequences to break the monothony of the terminal-green setting.
It's not really a webapp, but I used Create React App to avoid playing whack-a-mole with the bundling issues that always come up at the beginning of these projects.
Getting Started
Hosted version
You can play it at https://404.csokavar.hu
npm start
Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.
npm run build
Builds the app for production to the docs folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.