Hey there !
This repo is a submission to the CECI-BEST's hackathon.
This year, the theme was "Game Jam", pretty cool uh ;-).
As you might know, some constraint were there too, we had to build a game that is not controlled by the computer the game is running on ! And the game style had to be related to Arcade Games
We decided to build a Space Shooter controlled by phone, by using accelerometer to control space-ship and take the lead in the universe !
This project might be the hardest to run, not because of our incapacity (i hope), but because we choose to use accelerometer js api but we figure out too late that it only works on HTTPS, or in pure localhost.
We found a solution, of course, but it requires you to be on Android and to use Google Chrome.
To build the web part, just do
npm install
npm run build
and serve dist folder the way you want ;-)
To run python part, just do
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py
This is the tricky part, if you're running this project on your LAN, you will have to do a quick manipulation.
- Go to
chrome://flagsin your android browser - Search for "Insecure origins treated as secure"
- Put the web address (with http:// prefix) into the box, enable the flag, and then click on "Relaunch" to apply changes.
After this manipulation, chrome will consider your web app as it was on a super secure HTTPS server lol, so naïve :)
Then, just go on the web app, enter the IP Address of the server/computer were the game is running, and enjoy
This is pretty straightforward, you can control your spaceship with your phone orientation, and you can click on the screen to shoot evil ennemies!
There are some "power up" that allows you to get more lasers, or to gain some score if you can catch them quickly !
You can obviously play in multiplayer at this game ! Just register multiples users and go !
We choose to use pygame because it was the easiest way to get into gamedev for a first time, and a web app for the phone because it was more easy than a native application.
The web app use preact, just because its a pleasure to use !
Anyway, if you have read this README this far, congratulations, you are braver than the half of my team lol.