Project Showdown Factory

Summary/Description

This is my version of the popular online game Pokemon Showdown dubbed Showdown Factory. In the original Pokemon Showdown, a player is given a random Pokemon team and is faced off against another player to simulate a battle. This project will continue the battle simulator genre and have the player face off against a computer instead of another player. The player has to build a team with different ways to customize their Pokemons through their EVs, abilities, happiness, and movesets. Once a team has been built, the goal of the game is to get as high of a score as possible. One point is added to the score once an enemy team of six is defeated. New enemies are generated once the previous enemy team is defeated in an endless battle until the player has no more Pokemons left and the score is saved. The website was built using Python Flask, HTML, JavaScript, PostreSql, and the PokeAPI.

A demo of this project can be found at my personal website.

APIs:

PokeAPI [Documentation]

• This is the API used to retrieve information about all the pokemons up to generation 5. (battle statistics, images, etc)

How to Run the Project:

Requirements:

• Python3 and pip is required to run the project.
  • Download Python3 here. (pip3 comes with python3 download)
  • All required packages for the virutal environment can be found in doc/requirements.txt.

Run the project:

1. Create a virtual environment with python3 -m venv <virtual-environment-name>.
2. Use <virtual-environment-name>/Scripts/activate to activate your virtual environment.
   Use source <virtual-environment-name>/Scripts/activate if you are using Git Bash.
3. Clone this project and cd into the cloned repository.
4. Use pip3 install -r doc/requirements.txt to install all necessary packages.
5. Use python3 app.py to run the project on your local host.
6. Go to the url listed as the local host.