- able to launch self programmed online/offline games and simulations
- can handle third party programs/games (addable by user and preinstalled)
- Atari Tennis (retro game, see wikipedia article)
- Pac-Man (retro game, see wikipedia article)
- CatchThatFish (fishing game, inspired by Cat goes Fishing)
- Cloooowns (bloon pop game)
- FT2 (drawing tool)
Graded half years school project for WP2 informatics class (8th Grade, started March 2020)
This project will not be maintained after the end of the projects time span. This means, there will be no feature updates, content updates or bug fixes after the deadline.
In this paragraph, there will be instructions on how to setup the backend and the game launcher itself on your computer, and how to change configurations.
To begin with, you will need to clone/download the repository to your computer.
There are two ways to do so
Way 1:
If you already have installed git to your path you can simple use the following command to clone the repo.
git clone https://github.com/Mesalcode/game_launcher.git
Way 2:
The other way is to download the repository in form of a zip file.
To do so click on the ,,Clone or download" button you can see over the files of this repository.
Then, you need to click on Download ZIP, which will download the whole repository in form of a ZIP-file.
For the installation of NodeJS please refer to the official NodeJS download page, which will list several ways of installing NodeJS on your computer. Attention! Make sure that NodeJS ends up beeing in your PATH, as this is gonna be necessary in the following steps.
When you completed this step, you will need to install the needed NodeJS modules.
You will find the command, you have to run in the command prompt/shell, when following the links listed.
Instructions on how to setup your MongoDB database can be found official MongoDB manual. Make sure to setup password security aswell.
- Frontend/User interface: Native Processing and using its processing-sound library
- Backend: Portable NodeJS server interacting with MongoDB database, receiving fetches using Express - MEN-Stack (MEAN without Angular)