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Ever since 2020, Events are going online! This calls for a revamp of our event infrastructure as more and more events are held online or hybrid.
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Discord servers are not a good interface for hosting events, they can get overwhelming, un-navigable boring as the size of the event grows.
- What we're trying to do is we're making a virtual, but extremely visual representation of an event, A virtual Space for events
- You can visualize and "live" the event just like offline events.
- We created a 2D map which mocks the real environment of an event.
- Some of the key features include:-
- VIRTUAL ROOMS
- Rooms for All Webinars
- Rooms for Minor Events
- Rooms for Sponsors
- Rooms for Networking
- THEMED MAPS
- All events are different, which calls for the need to be able to build UIs that cater to the events needs
- You can make your own map for your events
- INTERACTIVE OBJECTS
- These virtual spaces can have interactive objects, when a user visits these objects they respond with premade templates.
- Examples:
- Zoom Bots - create zoom meeting links, instantaneously
- FAQ Bots - Ask anything about the event!
- Advertisment Bots
- EVENT LEVELS
- Phases of the events can be categorised as game levels
- Ex: Level 2 == Hacking phase
- This gives a direct visula cue of whats going on in the event!
- VIRTUAL ROOMS
- Making a virtual world sounds exciting, but, its complicated!
- Under the hood this a 2D Realtime Multiplayer RPG Game!
- We faced a lot of challenges while selecting the right Game engine to get the work done.
- Lots reading documentation was done.
- Every thing had to happen in REALTIME
- We had to learn about WebSockets and implement complex server side logic using the same.
- Lastly, choosing a good name was a pain in the B.
- Socket IO
- PIXI JS
- Agora
- Node JS
- React
- NextJS
- HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- SCSS
- Figma
- GitHub: https://github.com/21VAibhavGArg/blocs
- Figma: https://www.figma.com/file/1gjv3O2YQ69UD2rle8fuuj/Proto?node-id=130%3A145
