Apple Guardian: Type Defense

A fast-paced typing practice game.

As apples fall from the sky, pesky bugs swarm in to devour them. Quickly type the correct characters to eliminate the pests before they reach your precious fruit.

Play: https://vicalloy.github.io/letter-fall/

Requirements

Node.js is required to install dependencies and run scripts via npm.

Available Commands

Command	Description
npm install	Install project dependencies
npm run dev	Launch a development web server
npm run build	Create a production build in the dist folder
npm run dev-nolog	Launch a development web server without sending anonymous data (see "About log.js" below)
npm run build-nolog	Create a production build in the dist folder without sending anonymous data (see "About log.js" below)

Writing Code

After cloning the repo, run npm install from your project directory. Then, you can start the local development server by running npm run dev.

The local development server runs on http://localhost:8080 by default. Please see the Vite documentation if you wish to change this, or add SSL support.

Once the server is running you can edit any of the files in the src folder. Vite will automatically recompile your code and then reload the browser.

Deploying to Production

After you run the npm run build command, your code will be built into a single bundle and saved to the dist folder, along with any other assets your project imported, or stored in the public assets folder.

In order to deploy your game, you will need to upload all of the contents of the dist folder to a public facing web server.

Customizing the Template

Vite

If you want to customize your build, such as adding plugin (i.e. for loading CSS or fonts), you can modify the vite/config.*.mjs file for cross-project changes, or you can modify and/or create new configuration files and target them in specific npm tasks inside of package.json. Please see the Vite documentation for more information.

About log.js

If you inspect our node scripts you will see there is a file called log.js. This file makes a single silent API call to a domain called gryzor.co. This domain is owned by Phaser Studio Inc. The domain name is a homage to one of our favorite retro games.

We send the following 3 pieces of data to this API: The name of the template being used (vue, react, etc). If the build was 'dev' or 'prod' and finally the version of Phaser being used.

At no point is any personal data collected or sent. We don't know about your project files, device, browser or anything else. Feel free to inspect the log.js file to confirm this.

Why do we do this? Because being open source means we have no visible metrics about which of our templates are being used. We work hard to maintain a large and diverse set of templates for Phaser developers and this is our small anonymous way to determine if that work is actually paying off, or not. In short, it helps us ensure we're building the tools for you.

However, if you don't want to send any data, you can use these commands instead:

Dev:

npm run dev-nolog

Build:

npm run build-nolog

Or, to disable the log entirely, simply delete the file log.js and remove the call to it in the scripts section of package.json:

Before:

"scripts": {
    "dev": "node log.js dev & dev-template-script",
    "build": "node log.js build & build-template-script"
},

After:

"scripts": {
    "dev": "dev-template-script",
    "build": "build-template-script"
},

Either of these will stop log.js from running. If you do decide to do this, please could you at least join our Discord and tell us which template you're using! Or send us a quick email. Either will be super-helpful, thank you.