A Tower Defense game for Agile Software Programming Group 8.
This is the code repository.
Game link: https://aspgrp8.z1.web.core.windows.net/
Peripheral files can be found here: https://github.com/FredaXYu/ASP_Group8
Final proposal (please find the latest version): https://github.com/FredaXYu/ASP_Group8/tree/main/after_midterm/finalterm_proposal
Alex Chu
Dimitri Vlachos
Jeremy Matthews
Freda Xiaoyun Yu
(Absent: Sharif Khan)
Because of the nature of Phaser, and writing games with JavaScript, the game will need a web server to be able to be tested during development. There are a few tools that can be used to help streamline this process. Brackets and Visual Studio Code both have the ability to run a local web server for easy testing of the game. This project can also make use of NodeJS to run a small local web server.
Install the current LTS version of NodeJS from here (16.13.2 at time of writing). Once node is installed, through a command prompt, navigate to the projects root directory and run npm install to install all of the NodeJS Dependencies.
With a command prompt in the projects root directory, run npm run start. This will launch a local web server for the project. In a web browser, you will be able to navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ to play the game locally.
Both Brackets and Visual Studio Code make excellent code editors for JavaScript and both have the ability to run a test web server in the background for easy testing during development.
Brackets can be used for development. It is a great cross platform IDE and it has Live Preview built in by default. It can be downloaded here.
Visual Studio Code is an excellent, cross platform IDE which has many extensions which can help with development. It does not have a Live Preview feature built in, but does have the ability to add one through the use of Extensions. VSCode can be downloaded from here and is regularly updated. For easy development, I recommend installing a few extensions.
- Debugger For Chrome - This will add a full debugger which will allow you to easily debug your code while it is running inside of Chrome.
- Mocha - Mocha extension allows for running Mocha tests in Visual Studio Code
Tests will be run using MochaJS. The package will be installed automatically the the NodeJS required modules. To run the tests type npm run test. All tests will ne located in the ./test folder.