simonswain / coldwar

Cold War

Cold War

coldwar.io

Simulation Platform

Cold War is a simulation platform. Cold War comes with a set of scenes for you to watch and tweak. If you want to write your own it gives you code patterns to follow and a runtime environment to play them in.

Community

Tag tweets and everything else with #coldwar

Hacking

Start by looking in server/public/js/scenes and server/public/js/actors. These are the only two places you'll need to mess with to write your own sims. Create a Scene and fill it with Actors. Start simple and build it up. Interception is a good scene to use as a base. Edit scenes/index.js to add it to the list of scenes on the homepage.

Talks

Talks have been given on Coldwar at:

• JSConf US, May 2015 (Jacksonville, Florida, US)
• Web Directions Code, June 2015 (Melbourne, Australia)
• SydJS, July 2015 (Sydney, Australia)
• TX JS, July 2015 (Austin, Texas, US)
• Talk.js, November 2015 (Singapore)
• JSConf Asia November 2015 (Singapore)
• JSConf Asia November 2014 (Singapore)

See also Rats of the Maze

Stickers

Stickers available here

Getting Started

You'll need Node.js version 4 or above.

git clone [e-mail]:simonswain/coldwar.git
cd coldwar
npm install
npm start
open http://localhost:4002

Key Controls

• tab toggle options
• esc back to index
• enter restart scene
• ? help.
• \ diagnostics.
• drag pan
• + - 0 zoom
• mousewheel zoom.

References

• SAGE
• Cold War, Hot Jets
• Wargames
• Fail Safe
• Thirteen Days
• Seven Days in May
• Dr Strangelove
• Major Havoc
• History of Game Graphics
• Cold War Britain
• The Power of Decision
• NASA A year in the life of Earth's CO2
• Energy2D-JS
• Major Havoc
• Rats of The Maze
• Microsimulation model of a national economy
• SAC Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959

History

2015-11-17 1.0.0 Initial public release