Architecture Notes

K'tah is a typical web application built on a node-express-backbone-jade stack with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and WebGL on the front-end, and a mysql database behind the server.

We identified the following as "subsystems":

• Main script (app.js)
• Web Application Wiring
  • URI specifications
  • Routing
• Controllers
• Views (Jade templates)
• Game State
• Networking
  • Ajax Calls
  • Timers
• Database
  • Configuration
  • DAO
• Chat
• Players (Herder, Pioneer, Architect, Scientist, Tinkerer)
• Players' Capabilities
• Monsters
• Monster behavior (AI)
• Resources (rocks, metal, sand, stone, water, wood, zombie flesh, atomic waste, ...)
• Artwork (models, skins, accents, textures, ground, resources, fonts, icons, ...)
• 3-D
  • Model Design
  • Rendering and Animation
  • UI for navigation and performing capabilities
  • Effects
• Web
  • jQuery-ui Implementeation
  • Beautiful CSS