chan-kelv/hackatron

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! :)