Pixel-Run

Pixel-Run is a jump and run game developed and maintained by Namics' trainees.

Run

To run the pixel run server you first have to build the client application. There is a server running Express which serves the game app and handles the scores sent by the game in the browser.

Install

To install and run the game on your by your own clone this repository and install all dependencies.

yarn install

Env variables to set

Some environmental variables are needed in order to build the game.

Key	Value
HOST (required)	the local hostname
JUMP_ON (required)	push to jump on keypress and release to jump on keyup
PORT	Port default is 3000

Build

To build for production use the build task.

yarn build

Start Server

To start the server run the command

yarn start

Before starting the live server you have the build the React app otherwise nothing is displayed.

Contributing

Development Server

For development there is a dev task which runs webpack with a watcher side by side with the express server.

yarn dev

For development build only use the build:dev task

yarn build:dev

Run tests

To run the Jest tests run

 yarn test