Ruby on rails webapp to play pacman in single player and multiplayer mode. Currently in development.
A webapp to play Pacman in single player and multiplayer mode, maintain statistics of games played, view leaderboards etc. This project was developed out of love for the classic game pacman and to understand the concepts of real-time multiplayer gameplaying.
- Backend - Ruby on Rails
- Frontend - Bulma CSS framework
- Redis, for a real time gameplaying experience.
Following features have been implemented:
- Play single player mode Pacman as guest (without user account).
- Play Multiplayer Mode, where two players can race with each other to finish all the pellets first :D
- Create user account and save your games.
- Maintain user game statistics - high score, no of wins total games played etc.
- View Leaderboards (Based on no of total wins, high score and total score).
Following features are currently in development:
- A multiplayer mode where 2-4 players will play in the same maze. Players will receive power pellets randomly which will enable them to eat other players. The one with the highest score wins!
- Adding supercool sound effects to the game.
- Ruby >=2.7.2
- Rails 6.1.3.1
- Redis >=3.0
Check your version using ruby -v and rails -v
Build a docker image and run it using docker-compose. This is especially useful if your system does not meet above dependencies.
docker-compose build
docker-compose up
The project is now hosted on http://127.0.0.1:3000
Clone the repository:
https://github.com/squarebat/pacman.git
cd pacman
Install required gems and webpacker to precompile js files:
bundle install
rails webpacker:install
If bundler is not installed, you can install it using gem install bundler
Run all database migrations:
rails db:migrate
Run the server
rails server
It can now be accessed on http://127.0.0.1:3000
Alternatively, you can host it on a different port using the command rails server -p <port_no>
To use the multiplayer game feature, you'll have to start up a redis server on port 6379. If you'd like to use redis on a different port, change the port number in /app/config/cable.yml
Project is currently in development. Feel free to create an issue and contribute :D
ziw/Javascript-Pacman - The javascript files for the pacman gameplay obtained from this repo, were developed by Zi Wang (ziw), Bingying Xia (bxia). The files were further modified for this project.