It's a html/css/vanilla javascript text-based game with an Alice in Wonderland theme. (Google "Oregon Trail" for an example of this game type).
This is a repo geared towards new web devs who are learning open source and want to work and socialize with other devs. That includes the maintainer(s)! To keep things managable, I'm limiting the contributors to 10 for now. Quality over quantity.
If You'd Like to Contribute Please Follow These Three Steps:
- Please introduce yourself in the discussions tab
- Have a quick read through the CONTRIBUTING.md and README.md files
- Comment in the issue that you'd like to work on.
If we still have contributor spots open I'll assign the issue.
This game was orignally created as a python console game as part of a computer science course at Massey University, New Zealand in 2020. Part of the assignment was documenting the thought process using comments. (So there's a lot of comments in the .py file!). The assignment was the classic Camel game from "Program Arcade Games and With Python And Pygame" and orginally concevied in 1979 in "More BASIC Computer Games".
However, the premise of the game is both racist and colonlialist - stealing an camel from the "natives" and racing away from them across the Mobi desert. So I changed the theme to Alice from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland movie rescuing the Red Queen's Bandersnatch from his imprissionment and racing across Underland to get to the White Queen's castle. I also added a random chance that the player would be attacked by the Jabberwocky, be killed, and the Jabberwocky poem would print on the screen.
The goal is to take the existing python code and turn it into an accessible text based web game in html, css, and vanilla javascript. The game type is much like the classic text based "Oregon Trail" PC game.
The repo is being started with only a small amount of code and the app will not be functional. Instead comments have been added in the project files to show where code blocks should go and what they should do. The point is to collaborate in changing the orginal python file into a fun, working, and accessible web game.
In 2022, I participated in my first Hacktoberfest and Hacksquad while in the Scrimba Frontend Developer Career Path. Starting in open source can be intimidating. Turning this Alice python game into a vanilla javascript text based game web app could be a fun way for new devs like myself to collaborate and learn how to work on an open source project together. Version control was completely lacking from the unviersity courses I took in 2020-2021, so maintaining an open source repo geared towards new devs seems a good social way to learn and contrinute to the open source community. I know I will make mistakes (likely many), but that's a good way to learn. I hope others working on this project will bear with me while I learn how to maintain an open source repo.
Given that this is a repo for us new devs to learn together, I'm aiming for the issues and the PRs that solve them to be small and doable for first time web devs. These can be as simple as adding a single heading and text, a short basic vanilla javascript function, or changing the colour variable in the CSS.
This project is being developed with accessibility in mind from the beginning and at every step. That starts with sematic html, labelling elements, and having a "skip to main content". It also means that even if planned accessibilty features such as theme switching aren't being released in a particular version, the code is still written to make those features easily added.
This is one reason why CSS variables are being used, instead of hard coding colours and font/text attributes. While CSS variables are a more intermediate level skill, they make it easier to switch colours, type/font and implement theme switching instead of having to refactor the entire stylesheet.