Exploding Kittens 🐱

A web-based card game

Warning: Backend-down, scores won't be saved.

Instructions for running the game locally

1. cd into your downloads directory where exploding-kittens.tar.gz is located.
2. Run the command to extract the files

tar -xzvf exploding-kittens.tar.gzip

3. Go to the directory exploding-kittens

cd exploding-kittens

4. Start the server

   1. Setting up your environment

      cd server
      touch .env
      echo "PORT=(The port your want to run)" >> .env
      echo "REDIS_URL=(your redis URI)" >> .env
      

   2. To start in development mode

      npm install
      npm run start:dev
      

      OR

   3. To build the server

      npm run build
      npm start
      

5. Start the client

   1. Setting up your environment

      cd ..
      cd client
      touch .env
      echo "VITE_API_URL=http://localhost:(PORT)" >> .env
      npm install
      

   2. To run in development mode

      npm run dev
      

      OR

   3. To build the app

      npm run build
      npm run preview
      

6. Press O to open the game the in the browser

Game Instructions

The game deck consists of 4 different types of cards

• Cat card 🐱
• Defuse card 🙅
• Shuffle card 🔀
• Exploding kitten card 💣

When the game is started there will be a deck of 5 cards ordered randomly. Each time user clicks on the deck a card is revealed and that card is removed from the deck. A player wins the game once he draws all 5 cards from the deck and there is no card left to draw.

Rules

• If the card drawn from the deck is a cat card, then the card is removed from the deck.
• If the card is exploding kitten (bomb) then the player loses the game.
• If the card is a defusing card, then the card is removed from the deck. This card can be used to defuse one bomb that may come in subsequent cards drawn from the deck.
• If the card is a shuffle card, then the game is restarted and the deck is filled with 5 cards again.

Assumptions

• The game currently doesn't have an any User authentication. You can play as any player you want.
• On startup the game assign you a Random username, if you don't change/confirm this username your score won't be saved.
• If you choose a username that doesn't already exists, a new user will created.
• The games polls the database every 8 seconds to provide real time update in the leaderboard table.