Online Game Store

Team

Kalaiarasan Saminathan
Rajagopalan Ranganathan
Sunil Kumar Mohanty

Description

Online Game Store is a project developed for the Web Software Development (CS-C3170) course for the year 2016-17. The project is based on Django framework.

Game developers have an inventory of game which they upload to the game store (just the urls).

Players can

• register in the application and purchase the game from the store and play on their mobile or desktop. The application maintains a leaderboard for each application.
• share their score in social media
• Register/Login using facebook
• Resume game from previous saved state

Development Tools/Languages

IDE - JetBrains PyCharm Languages - Python 3.5, HTML5, CSS (bootstrap), jquery, django

Authentication

• User Registration
• Login
• Logout
• Email Validation
• Use Secret Key
• Login using Facebook

Basic player functionalities

• Buy games
• payment service
• play games
• Game and Service interaction
• Player allowed to play the games which he has purchased and cannot play other games
• Search for games:
  • Arranged based on topics
  • arranged based on editor picks
  • Arranged based on date (new ones first)
  • Search based on
    • name
    • Game types (like arcade, simulation)
    • cost ? price

Basic developer functionalities

• Add Game URL to game store
• Set price and remove/modify the posted game
• Statistics about the game (ex-purchases)
• Security restrictions (Only developers allowed to add/remove game)

Game/service interaction

• Save player Score
• Save in High Score
• Display High scores for the game (top 10)

Quality of Work

• Coding style to be followed as mentioned in - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/writing-code/coding-style/
• MTV (Model Template View) pattern to be followed
• Non-technical user can use the website comfortably
• Minimize the number of clicks to complete a task
• Should be accessible by mobile touch devices
• Validate the website against W3C validator

Save/load and resolution feature

• Save the state of the game (Score)
• Allow the user to resume the game
• Save the user preferred Resolution (Height, Width)

RESTful API

• Implement Restful API for important services.
• Versioning support to be provided in the API

Own game

• It should communicate the score to game store application
• Save/load the game
• Can be hosted as a static file in service, It should be available in the store

Mobile Friendly

• Use bootstrap CSS framework to make a responsive design
• Use only div based layout in html

Social media sharing

• Sharing the games in Facebook - Facebook share
• Meta data retrieval from backend
• Icon or an image for the game - create and store in the backend
• Retrieved metadata added as an advertisement or description message and shared in the frontend
• verify that the shared game has meaningful and attractive messages

Heroku Application

http://fierce-brook-72805.herokuapp.com/