Aurora

Aurora is a game about space colonization, artificial intelligence, and eschatology.

You can play it at https://grarer.github.io/Aurora/

This project was led by Grace Rarer as part of Georgia Tech's VGDev club.

How to build and run locally

• Anyone can play Aurora on the web, but Node.js is required for developers to build and run a local copy of the game.
• After forking and cloning the repository, navigate to the Aurora directory and run npm install to install the developer dependencies. We have included some helpful node scripts:
  • npm run build to compile the game
  • npm run lint to run code style checking
  • npm run start to start a local server. You can then navigate your web browser to http://localhost:<port#>/index.html to test your local copy (the default port will usually be 8080). After starting the live server, you do not need to restart it after each build; it will reload automatically.

Credits

• Game design, programming, and art assets by Grace Rarer
• Programming, DevOps, and serialization framework by Prindle
• Procedural music generation by May Lawver
• Environment art by Seong Ryoo
• Additional programming by Mitchell Philipp, Brad Baker, and Will Cooper

Attributions

• To save and load the game, we use Augustus (MIT License)
• For emoji rendering, we use Twemoji by Twitter (MIT license for code, CC-BY 4.0 license for emoji graphics)
• The game's UI uses IBM Plex Mono (Open Font License)
• Menu background image via NASA (public domain)

License

• This project is released under the MIT license.