Global Thermonuclear War

Our team's capstone project for Galvanize Web Development Immersive program.

Global Thermonuclear War is a full-stack board game, played across multiple devices, where you are an international power locked in an arms race with the rest of the world. Our team wanted to build a game that took full advantage of technologies like mobile devices, video projectors, and cameras while also having the in-person social interaction of a traditional board game.

Roles

Tom - Dart & Flutter / Mobile
Steven - Front End with Jason / Mobile with Tom
Gavin - Chaos Team / Game mechanics
Jason - Phaser / Motion & animation
Lance - Physical & material / user API / AWS deployment

Project Links

Deployed site: https://gtnwthegame.com/

Wiki for Instructions, Game design and Dev docs: https://github.com/LanceHunter/Capstone-Game/wiki

Live Gameplay:

Game & Language Architecture:

Web Application:

Build Tools / Stack

Flutter, Vue.js, Phaser.js, Tracking.js, Firebase, PostgreSQL, Bulma, KOA, Waffle.io, AWS EC2

1. Mobile app written in Flutter.
2. Projected game board using Vue.js and Phaser.js.
3. Webcam and Tracking.js to track player interaction with the projected board.
4. Realtime Firebase database to sync gamestate between physical devices.
5. PostgreSQL database for storing account info and player statistics.
6. Full stack website with Vue.js and Bulma to create games and view player stats.
7. KOA server to coordinate communication between components.
8. Waffle.io for user stories and project management.
9. Project hosted on Amazon EC2.

Initial Expected Challenges

1. API working cross platform
2. Code management / deployment pipeline
3. Actual game design
4. Game API for live calls / sockets
5. Hardware / projector
6. Tracking
7. User interface
8. Mobile UI
9. AI programming
10. Deployment / AWS