CryptoMonsters

A card trading game that uses blockchain technology in order for players to get cards. Each card would then be owned securely by the player in their digital wallet. Players would get cards either by "mining" for them, trading with other players, or melding two cards to create a new card. Each card would have specific attribute genetics that could be passed on to their children.

This is a work in progress and hopefully we will remember to keep this updated as we move along.

Deployed Site

Start growing your horde now!

Unfortunately, for the forseeable future the CyrptoMonsters website is down

Authors

Cody Dibble - Mark Reynoso - John Jensen - Chaitanya Narukulla-

Artist

Artwork by Travis Koon

Backstories by Matthew Cornmesser

Mining goblins by Dillon Wall

Backstory

Getting Started

Clone this repository to your local machine.

$ git clone https://github.com/kryptokardz/cryptocards.git

Once downloaded, change directory into the cryptocards directory.

$ cd cryptocards

Begin a new virtual environment with Python 3 and activate it.

cryptocards $ python3 -m venv ENV
cryptocards $ source ENV/bin/activate

Install the application requirements with pip.

(ENV) cryptocards $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a Postgres database for use with this application.

(ENV) cryptocards $ createdb cryptomonsters

Export environmental variables pointing to the location of database, your username, hashed password, and secret

(ENV) cryptocards $ export SECRET_KEY='secret'
(ENV) cryptocards $ export DB_NAME='cryptomonsters'
(ENV) cryptocards $ export DB_USER='(your postgresql username)'
(ENV) cryptocards $ export DB_PASS='(your postgresql password)'
(ENV) cryptocards $ export DB_HOST='localhost'
(ENV) cryptocards $ export DEBUG='True'

Then initialize the database with the migrate command from manage.py

(ENV) cryptocards $ python cryptomonsters/manage.py migrate

Once the package is installed and the database is created, start the server with the runserver command from manage.py

(ENV) cryptocards $ python cryptomonsters/manage.py runserver

Application is served on http://localhost:8000

Testing

You can test this application by first exporting an environmental variable pointing to the location of a testing database, then running the test command from manage.py.

(ENV) cryptocards $ export TEST_DB='cryptotests'
(ENV) cryptocards $ python cryptomonsters/manage.py test cryptomonsters

Deploying

You can deploy this application to AWS using Ansible.

Sign Up for AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/)

Setting Up with Amazon EC2

[Launch an Instance] (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EC2_GetStarted.html)

Create a `hosts` file in the root of `cryptocards`

[us-west-2] (your EC2 public IP address)

[us-west-2:vars] ansible_ssh_user=(your EC2 user) ansible_ssh_private_key_file=/path/to/your/key.pem

server_dns=(your EC2 public DNS) secret_key='secret' db_name='(your RDS database name)' db_host='(your RDS endpoint)' db_user='(your RDS username)' db_pass='(your RDS password)' test_db='test_cryptomonsters' allowed_hosts='(your EC2 public DNS) (your EC2 public IP address)'

aws_storage_bucket_name='(your S3 bucket name)' aws_access_key_id='(your IAM user access key id)' aws_secret_access_key='(your IAM user secret access key)'

admin_email='(your email address for admin)' admin_email_host='(host for your admin email)' admin_email_pass='(password for your admin email)'

Deploy the application with `ansible-playbook`

(ENV) cryptocards $ ansible-playbook -i hosts playbook/cryptomonsterswire_playbook.yml

## Architecture
Built with Python Django and Bootstrap framework. Tested through Django testing suite.