City Quest is a location based multiplayer treasure hunt style game featuring question and photo recognition challenges. There is a separate administration webpage which allows users to log in and create their own games. The game allows players to compete against each other or the clock to get around a course. It makes use of real time location to trigger the challenges when players reach the desired location, allows players to compare their progress with others and features a pin login system which will automatically start the game when all players have logged in. Information screens are also provided about locations and the app features a leaderboard of the fastest times a particular route has been completed in.

The front end is a mobile app for ios and android built using react native and expo. It makes calls to a server for challenges, routes, games and players. It also has functionality to post photos to firebase cloud storage and send the url to the server for analysis. The app features a camera and map that makes use of real time location.

The back end server was built using express and makes calls to a firestore database and the google api for photo recognition and route planning. End points are provided for get, post, put and delete requests.

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

You will need to download the expo app to run the game locally on a phone. You will also need to install the prerequisites for running and testing the application by running the following on the command line.

$ npm install

    axios 0.18.0,
    expo 31.0.6,
    firebase 5.7.0,
    react 16.5.0,
    react-native 31.0.0,
    react-native-fontawesome 6.0.1,
    react-native-keyboard-aware-scroll-view 0.8.0,
    react-native-maps 0.22.1,
    react-native-percentage-circle 1.0.7,
    react-native-progress-circle 2.0.1,
    react-navigation 3.0.7

In the project directory, you can run:

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open the expo app and scan the QR code to view the project on android or ios. The page will reload if you make edits.

The front end is not currently deployed, however it can be run locally using the instructions above. The back end can be found on heroku at https://city-quest-game.herokuapp.com/api/

Font end admin webpage built using react: https://github.com/nicola-20/FE-CQ-admin