hackatron

Overview

Hackatron is our rendition of the retro game, Pacman. This project was developed as our submission for nwHacks 2016.

Accomplishments

Within 24 hours, our team was able to:

• remake on the popular game using phaser.io engine
• implement a multiplayer game using web technology & frameworks such as socket.io & node.js, which was new to the entire team.
• integrate an AI using a pathfinding library.

What We Learned

1. JavaScript & Node.js framework
2. Understand basic communication between client-side and server-side networks
3. How to stay awake for 24+ hours

Installation

Clone the project:

git clone https://github.com/nwHacks2016/hackatron.git

Install dependencies:

cd hackatron
npm install

Spin up the local host:

node server.js

Navigate to localhost:8080 in your browser & enjoy! :)