Battleships

Term P project

What is it?

• digital version of boardgame

• 2 player

• 2 phases

  • Place ships

  • Shoot/Take hits

• Multiplayer component

Extra features

• Matchmaking
• Chat
• ELO based Rankings and Leaderboard
• Social Login 
• Custom Profile Pictures

Technologies We Used

Redis

• In Memory Key Value store

• Stores game state and ship locations

  • Game.rb -> Wrapper class around Redis

• Stores Leaderboards

• Caching

• Heroku : RedisToGo

Phaser

• HTML5 Game Engine

• Uses WebGL where possible

• Drawn on Canvas

• Very fast and popular

Lessons Learned

• Rails Asset Pipeline

  • Use built in helpers like asset_path

• Use Github Pull Requests

• Heroku debugging

  • Use rails console remotely

• DRY

  • Leaderboard Gem

  • Devise + OmniAuth

  • Paperclip

  • Countries Gem

  • Phaser