Modern pong remake, using your mobile phone as the controller.

Demoed at the ThoughtWorks booth at Agile Australia 2013.

Tech stack: HTML5 / Node.js / Socket.io / Pixi.js / Box2D / Grunt

Or see it in action here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSAISCejU9s

Install Node.js version 0.10.x (homebrew is recommended for OSX), then run

npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install

We use grunt for building

grunt		# builds all assets into ./build and watches for changes
grunt test  # runs the unit tests

Players are stored in a JSON file on S3, so you will need to include an aws.json file with S3 credentials in the root of the project. (ThoughtWorkers - there is one you can use on the jetpets myTW page).

And finally

npm start

This starts the server, and restarts it

• if something goes wrong
• when any server-side code changes

With the server running, open:

• localhost:8080/game to start the game runtime
• localhost:8080/admin for administrating players
• your-ip-address:8080 on your phone to join the game!

The game needs to be built locally first, and the server will just:

• run the server code (/src)
• serve static assets & files (/builtAssets)

Just run make deploy [HOST=<IP address>] to build & copy all the required files over SSH.

The server will need to run npm install --production to get all the runtime dependencies.

You'll need to have the Heroku Toolbelt installed and a Heroku account. (ThoughtWorkers - see the myTW jetpets page for Heroku credentials)

If you need to create a new Heroku app for jetpets, use 'grunt app:<new-app-name>'; if there is already an app, add it as a git remote ('git remote add heroku [email protected]:<existing-app-name>'). Once the app is set up, be sure to generate the build assets first ('grunt build'), before deploying ('git push heroku master').

Thanks to http://www.freesfx.co.uk for the free sound effects