The Sword or The Pop [Version: Tart]

The Sword or The PopTart? The erstwhile player chooses to fight one of three deadly creatures ... but at the same time his or her weapon is selected by popular vote on a webpage! Will you get the sword to defeat the Vorpal Bunnies, or will you be forced to throw PopTarts to survive? What do you do now?

Jam Site:

UMBC

Jam year:

2015

Diversifiers:

Can I Try?

Public Domain Class of 2015

Platforms:

Web standard (HTML5, Java, JavaScript, Flash)

Technology Notes:

node.js Angular https://bitbucket.org/force5/force5

Installation Instructions:

NOTE: Windows batch files are currently broken. We'll upload a fix. As a workaround for the run/setup step, unzip the folder and navigate to the release directory in command prompt. Then run

cd node_modules\force5
npm install
cd ..\..
npm install
node_modules\.bin\bower install

Then you can launch the application by running:

node_modules\.bin\gulp

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Our code needs to have a server sitting in the background, so we need to install a bit of tools to get this to work.

Soon, the game will be hosed on heroku.com. In the meantime, you can follow these instructions:

Install nodejs: http://nodejs.org/
Install development toolchains
- OSX: XCode
- Linus: GCC
- Windows: https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp (Follow the instructions in the README.md for Windows)
Download and unzip the zip from the gamejam website
Setup/Run!
- linux/osx: setup.sh, then run.sh
- windows: setup.bat, then run.bat