#Working in Widener
Working in Widener is a two player game. You duel, in your web browser, against a live person. The first one to shelve the assigned books wins. Maps are based on real library maps from Harvard's Widener Library.
Working in Widener uses node.js. Be sure to install it.
If you're on Ubuntu, this might be helpful
The most straightforward installation of Working in Widener uses Apache to serve up most everything and uses Node.js to handle socket-type communication.
Mosey over to your Apache documents directory and clone the git repo:
cd /var/www/html
git clone https://github.com/harvard-lil/working-in-widener.git
Config details are held in config.example.json. Copy that to a local config and edit as needed: cp config.example.json
Fire up the node server: node server.js
Things should be up now. Point your browser to something like http://yourhost/working-in-widener
If you want Node.js to serve up your HTML, CSS, and so on, you'll need to edit two things:
- Add the routes to your files in server.js. Express handles this. See the commented our routes in server.js as examples.
- Node will server the socket.io client for you. Remove the WEB_SOCKET_SWF_LOCATION line from main.js.
Dual licensed under the MIT license (below) and GPL license.
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