mliq/jsonfileparser

Node.js app and Bash scripts for playing ~~the-game~~ NerdQuest

JSONFileParser

Node JSON file parser and utilities to play The Game NerdQuest.

Quickstart - Strategy 1:

1. open src/bash/the_game.sh
2. replace YOUR KEY HERE with your API key.
3. run npm run start
4. monitor the log file (by default <root>/year2_day1.log)

Game Strategies

Strategy 1 - Harvest points and items

This is the main initial task of the game, run with npm run start. It hits the endpoint every 1 second and collects the output in a log file. Later, we can go through this log file to find items and use them.

Strategy 2 - Quest

This is new in NerdQuest and I don't quite yet know what it does. But you can run npm run quest to hit the quest endpoint one time and output is saved to <root>/quest.log.

Strategy 3 - Use Items

To be documented and updated soon how you can automate this, see below for some explanation of last year's functionality (which has not been updated yet). But for now, you have these instructions:

You can use items by POSTing them to /items/use/{itemid}?target={target-userid}.

Not all items accept targets. Some will only be used on yourself, and some auto-target.

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1.0 (The Game) release notes

Point gathering and items gathered into log files using bash script at src/bash/the_game.sh. Manual use item script also located at src/bash/use_item.sh.

Node app runs from src/index.js - uses "good items" as defined in src/js/getGoodItems.js at 15 sec interval, writes all item inventory to csv file at src/data/combinedItems.csv

src/index_stream.js was in progress attempt to develop an app that used streaming input but was out of scope and abandoned.

Some rudimentary charts created in R using the csv output as an input: R script located at src/R/the_game.R

Initially comma separation was left out of bash so added manually using sed: sed 's/$/,/' day1.log > day1.array