Because we could.
App available here: https://mysticrobots.com
Items to figure out
- Identify how we'll store the high scores
- Devise a solver
- Single player, Single Player vs computer, 2-player, 2-player over network, websocket, integrations?
- Identify all the different types of plays aside from single player (which would be the first one)
The largest problem to solve which may enable us to offer varying levels of complexity in the game is the solver. How do you devise a way to get a specific robot into the goal in the smallest number of moves. Alone is one level, and using the other robots is another level of complexity.
PostgreSQL is provided by Docker Compose. Run docker-compose up -d start from scratch and docker-compose down to destroy. If you are starting and stopping for day to day development use docker-compose start and docker-compose stop.
You'll need Yarn and Lerna installed to manage packages and shared modules.
Get started by running lerna bootstrap. You'll want to rerun this any time you pull changes where new dependencies have been added.
To run the project, you can use lerna run --stream start. I like the --stream option as it follows the logs nicely together.