Tebakata

A word-guessing game by nathanchrs. Inspired by the game Acakata (www.acakata.com), which unfortunately won't run anymore. Built mainly using Node.js, Express, Passport, MongoDB with Mongoose and Socket.io.

Setup

1. Install node.js
2. Install and run MongoDB
3. Navigate to project directory
4. Run npm install
5. Run npm start or node server.js

Configuration

To set configuration other than the default specified in server.js, create a new config.json file.

Example:

{
	"secret": "thisisasecretkey",
	"port": "3000",
	"ip": "localhost",
	"connectionstring": "mongodb://localhost/tebakata",
	"bcryptsaltworkfactor": "10",
	"countdown": "10"
}

Deploying to Openshift

Currently an instance of Tebakata is available at tebakata-nathanchrs.rhcloud.com for testing.

To deploy to Openshift:

1. Navigate to project directory
2. Run git remote add openshift -f <openshift-git-repo-url>
3. Run git merge openshift/master -s recursive -X ours
4. Run git push openshift HEAD:master

Notes:

• Openshift may suspend the application if it idles (no HTTP request) for more than a day.
• Server time uses Openshift default time, not UTC+7.
• Useful RHC commands: rhc setup, rhc setup -l <account-email>, rhc ssh tebakata, rhc apps, rhc show-app tebakata

Development

The server-side game logic is contained in game.js, in the Tebakata class. The client-side game logic is mostly in views\game.jade. The wordlist is available in JSON format in wordlist.json. Contributions are very welcome. Contributions to the design of this site are also welcome.

Todo

• Wordlist
• Better UI
• Online players count
• Add timestamp to events
• Tidy up code
• Add server-side event history
• Prevent answering if answerBox is empty
• Scoreboard filter
• Scoreboard live update using socket.io
• Game rooms with different word categories
• English version
• Facebook/Google/Twitter login, player profiles
• Achievements
• Password reset, email confirmation
• Player profile, stats graph