The game

Set up

Needs python 3.X and virtualenv Dependencies crash at Python 3.10 Project stable at Python 3.8.X

• Git clone https://github.com/hackupc/thegame.git && cd thegame
• virtualenv env --python=python3
• source ./env/bin/activate
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• (Optional) If using Postgres, set up the necessary environment variables for its usage before this step
• python manage.py migrate

Features

• Admin page to create Challenges and more .
• Auto HTML templating for Challenges (Image, template, File, Audio, Video, None).
• MyHackUPC login (no passwords managed here).
• Auto admin user for organizers.
• Restriction on hacker submits (max X every 5 minutes).
• Ranking page with local time.
• Challenge stats and user attempts.
• Codes encrypted.
• Troll codes to redirect to urls with ChallengeTroll model.
• Votes and comment for each challenge and custom reactions images with VoteReaction model.

Usage

Challenge

• name: Challenge title
• description: Challenge description (HTML format optional).
• order: Challenge phase. User cannot see challenges if not completed all the challenges from previous phase (initial = 1).
• file: Challenge file image, video, audio and HTML (django tags can be used).
• type: Challenge type in order to render the file. If set to HTML, his url won't exist making it secret.
• solution: Challenge solution. WriteOnly field. Encrypted.
• activation_date Challenge activation date (UTC). Won't be accessible to hackers until this date.

ChallengeTroll

• challenge: Challenge to add a troll code.
• code: Code that will trigger the redirection.
• url: Url to redirect if code was submitted.

VoteReaction

• challenge: Challenge to add this reaction.
• type: Reaction can be happy (vote>5) or sad (vote<=5).
• image: Image to display when the hacker votes.

FAQ

The ranking chart does not update. What's happening?

It's because it has a 60 second timeout of cache loading. If necessary, add the force_update=true query parameter to bypass this timeout.