README_ORIGINAL.md

Textcapade

Overview

Textcapade is Create Your Own Adventure game.

Server

If you don't have postgresql installed, you will need it. homebrew is the easiest way

brew install postgresql

Create the database user

$ createuser -w -l textcapade

Initialize database

$ make drop-and-migrate

Generate an episode or three from the jade source

$ npm run buildEpisode episode1
$ npm run buildEpisode episode2-a

(Rebuilding an episode is destructive and thus will fail if any users
are currently in that episode)

Set up local dev data (optional)

```shell
$ npm run knex seed:run

Run the dummy tropo server

$ npm run dummy

Run Hapi server at localhost:8000 with

$ npm start

Logging is done via the debug module under namespade textcapade So set DEBUG='textcapade' at the console to show logging

Playing

• Open a browser to localhost:8000
• Add a user, click the user, validate the user (or let them via email), then click start episode.
• Go to Author to run a story as that user

Story Flow

Messages sent to the user are derived from Jade templates in the story/ directory At a fork in the tree users must make a decision. The game determines the next file by running a decision function stored in the decisions/ directory.

Testing

• run all mocha tests npm run test

Components

• Postgres Database
• Hapi Server
• Jade templates
• Mocha Testing Framework
• Bookshelf/Knex ORM

Dummy Server

You can play using a dummy server when running locally, to set it up:

1. make drop-and-migrate
2. npm run buildEpisode episode1
3. npm run dummy in one terminal and npm start in another
4. Create a user, and validate with the number: "18005555555"
5. Start the game, you can type in the dummy server terminal and hit return to reply.