GAME NIGHT

Game Night is to have fun alone or with friends, even through a pandemic. Play a hangman game with movie titles in your favorite Language! (choosen from popular movies on OMDBApi & see the poster passed from themoviedb.org) For each wrong guess a associated giphy (fetched from Giphy API) is revealed - failure is not bad 👾
I used React Context to pass the logic of the game. I did some animations utilizing SCSS - will you find an easteregg? With Formspree the Input of the Contactform is sent to my Email.

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Built With

• React
• React Context
• React Router
• React Transition Groups
• SCSS
• Axios
• Formspree
• Open Movie API
• The Movie DB API
• Developer Joke API
• Giphy API

Special Gotchas

Design

I started with the idea: a gameing site to have fun alone or with friends in an easy way during lockdown of Covid19. I choosed to do Hangman, which is commenly known and easy to learn even if you don't know it yet. With games you can create an atmosephere of a specifiy world - i utilized movies for the athmosphere in hangman, retro arcade athetics for the home page and retro monitor athetics for the contact page.

Wireframe

Royalty free Pics

• unsplash
• freepik
• pexels
• pixabay
• the Stocks
• imcreator

Icons

• icon scout

Entrance Animation

Background-Pic

Look at a sign at the wall and if you click on the font, reach the entrance

1. scale pic to show the wall,
2. onclick: scale pic to cover whole Screen

.entranceBackground {
  background-image: url(arcadeEntrance.jpg);
  background-color: black;
  background-size: cover;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  animation-name: divMove;
  animation-duration: 5s;
  animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
  animation-iteration-count: 1;
  animation-fill-mode: forwards;
}

@keyframes divMove {
  0% {
    height: calc(1000px + 100vh);
    background-position-x: right;
    background-position-y: -50vh;
  }
  100% {
    height: 100vh;
    width: 100vw;
    background-position: center;
  }
}

Flickering Font on the Sign

CSS Keyframes

animation: shine 2s forwards, flicker 3s infinite;

@keyframes blink {
  0%,
  45%,
  75% {
    color: $white;
    text-shadow: 0 0 0.6rem $white, 0 0 1.5rem #a6a4d6,
      -0.2rem 0.1rem 1rem #9692e6, 0.2rem 0.1rem 1rem #8480e9,
      0 -0.5rem 2rem #615be1, 0 0.5rem 3rem $purple;
  }
  28%,
  35% {
    color: #8480e9;
    text-shadow: none;
  }
  82%,
  99% {
    color: hsla(234, 77%, 53%, 0.363);
    text-shadow: none;
  }
}

@keyframes shine {
  0% {
    color: $darkred;
    text-shadow: none;
  }
  100% {
    color: $white;
    text-shadow: 0 0 1.1rem $white, 0 0 2rem #a6a4d6,
      -0.2rem 0.1rem 1.5rem #9692e6, 0.2rem 0.1rem 1.5rem #8480e9,
      0 -0.5rem 2.5rem #615be1, 0 0.5rem 3.5rem $purple;
  }
}

Font is aligned to the wall using

• Transform-functions: translate, rotate and skew, to align it with the wall.

  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%) rotateX(8deg) rotateZ( -2deg) skewY(-0.5deg);

• Perspective Origin, to determine the vanishing point.

  perspective-origin: 150% 150%;

Easteregg

On the right wall, there is a flickering light. If you hover over ist, you will see a developer joke from Joke API

Menu

Pacman ghosts flying in using CSS Keyframes

Hangman Logic

APIs

get Movie-Data

Objective: get a reliable lists of popular movies from imdb-api & the fetch the infos for each movie more reliable from the moviedb.org

• Lifecycle-Methode useEffect

1. render fetch-calls on first render (ex componentDidMount())
2. render fetch-calls if [choosenLang, style, setGameState, phone, render] is changing

-fetch-calls

1. fetch popular movies from imdb-api.com
2. select one Movie from popluar Movie array

• get a random number const randomNum = Math.floor(Math.random() * 90);
  as index of popular Movie array ${movie.items[randomNum].id}

3. fetch movie infos and movie poster from themoviedb.org

Obejective: Don't display Movies longer then 25 charaters because of the screen size

• check lenght of movie title with terenary operator data.title.length < 25 ? setMovieData(data) : setRender(!render) if length is more then 25 letters, fetch a new title

• check with media query phone the screen-width: import { useMediaPredicate } from "react-media-hook"; if phone then movietitle should be < 10;

  useEffect(() => {
    const getMovie = () => {
      fetch(
        `https://imdb-api.com/en/API/MostPopularMovies/${process.env.REACT_APP_IMDB_KEY}`
      )
        .then((res) => res.json())
        .then((data) => setMovie(data))
        .catch((err) => console.log("Error fetching and parsing data", err));
    };
    getMovie();

    const randomNum = Math.floor(Math.random() * 90);
    const getMovieData = () => {
      if (!phone) {
        if (movie && movie.items.length > 0) {
          fetch(
            `https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/${movie.items[randomNum].id}?api_key=${process.env.REACT_APP_MOVIEDB_KEY}&language=${languages[choosenLang]}`
          )
            .then((res) => res.json())
            .then((data) =>
              data.title.length < 25 ? setMovieData(data) : setRender(!render)
            );
        } else {
          fetch(
            `https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/${items[randomNum].id}?api_key=${process.env.REACT_APP_MOVIEDB_KEY}&language=${languages[choosenLang]}`
          )
            .then((res) => res.json())
            .then((data) =>
              data.title.length < 25 ? setMovieData(data) : setRender(!render)
            );
        }
      } else {
        if (movie && movie.items.length > 0) {
          fetch(
            `https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/${movie.items[randomNum].id}?api_key=${process.env.REACT_APP_MOVIEDB_KEY}&language=${languages[choosenLang]}`
          )
            .then((res) => res.json())
            .then((data) =>
              data.title.length < 10 ? setMovieData(data) : setRender(!render)
            );
        } else {
          fetch(
            `https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/${items[randomNum].id}?api_key=${process.env.REACT_APP_MOVIEDB_KEY}&language=${languages[choosenLang]}`
          )
            .then((res) => res.json())
            .then((data) =>
              data.title.length < 10 ? setMovieData(data) : setRender(!render)
            );
        }
      }
    };
    getMovieData();
    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
  }, [choosenLang, style, setGameState, phone, render]);

Contact

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