Overview

The goal of this project is to output and subsequently parse log files for the game Battlefield 2 and generate a wide range of statistical web pages that describe the performance of each player.

The focus will be on creating a modern and polished user experience that provides interesting and entertaining information to players of the game. It will support a real-time mode for use during LAN party events, as well as a comprehensive static mode for post-game viewing. It will also include a custom game mod that will make it possible to extract additional statistics not available in the standard game. There is no interest at this time in supporting other games.

Setup

Game

• Copy the modded game files in the folder bf2-server into the corresponding directory structure of the BF2 server installation. Currently, the modifications consist of only two files. The existing __init__.py file was modified just to include a new custom file. The logger.py is a new custom file that listens to various standard game events and writes out log entries to an external file.

• Make sure the new code has permission to write log files. By default, it attempts to write the log files to a sub-folder of the currently executing game mod. Typically the standard game mod will be used, so the logs folder should be created at mods/bf2/logs. If the server was installed in a restricted folder like Program Files under Windows, then you should go ahead and grant your user account full permission to the new logs folder.

• If everything is setup correctly, then upon running the dedicated server you should see a new file written to the logs folder created above.

Web Application

• Make sure Python 2.7.x is installed and the Cherrypy web server package is installed.

• Download and extract map tiles for each game map to the webapp/www/tiles directory.

• Set the location of your game log file using the webapp/application.conf configuration file.

• Run the webapp/application.py file to start the web application.