LOCAL DEV SETUP
- change to dev database in code: this.root = af.database.object('/root/dev');
- install nodeJS
- npm install -g angular-cli
- npm install
- ng serve
LOCAL HOSTING
- Use this to host on IIS on a windows box: xcopy C:\temp\hat\dist C:\inetpub\wwwroot /s /e
- Next Browse http:///index.html
FEATURES
- Uses Firebase Real Time DB
- Build with Angular 2
- Material Design goodness
HOSTING
- change dev database to prod: this.root = af.database.object('/root');
- make sure there are no uncommited changes
- delete the dist directory
- Deploy to gh-pages using this command: ng github-pages:deploy --message "Deploying to github pages"
- You may cache your github credentials using this to prevent from prompt every time you push/deploy code: https://discventionstech.wordpress.com/2016/06/17/cache-github-credentials-in-git/
- Visit http://tkhemani.github.io/ngCliSeed (old url: http://hatplay.firebaseapp.com) for live use
DB
- Database Dashboard: https://console.firebase.google.com/project/project-7548713803590560188/database/data
UPCOMING GLOBAL FEATURES
- Change tabs to sidebar for better mobile UX (currently mobile landscape mode shows max 2 tabs)
- Rename the repo and site to something gamey
- Create alias for the site using some free alias svc
- Service Workers (courtesy of ng cli) for offline support
- CHROME/ANDROID NOTIFICATIONS WHEN ACTIONS ARE REQUIRED FROM PLAYER
- start game only when both player are in the session
- deploy to gh pages
- puppy like md-toolbar at top
- name dropdown
- Minify, uglify and gzip build code (using ng cli)
- player count in session
- Cloud deploy on Firebase
- Encryption
- offline template compiler for faster initial load
- Add option to use bluetooth in offline scenarios
- Allow single player offline/online play using presaved movies for hangman and randomizer for play against computer in SPS and rummy
UPCOMING HANGMAN FEATURES
- Show ans. if wrong
- * for space
- On Screen Keyboard for entering text toggleable by radio. Should have vovels highlighted and also options user enters
- don't allow same option to be entered again
- Notification or Color indicator when action required like for giving movie
- Chat
- Refresh should not refresh Bluff and vice versa
- don't subs 1 for wrong guess
- give more points for less options used
- points can be redeemed for options in case player is out of options for a game
- Optionally Presist changes to DB for ever so as to never reset game
UPCOMING BLUFF FEATURES
- game should persist across mobile and desktop...
- Instant rewards are fun, so give points for each successful catch and/or bluff
- Allow for smaller games with a subset of the deck like say8 cards each ie 16 total cards comprising of just 1 to 4 of the deck or even random 16 cards from the deck...let the user decide
UPCOMING SPS FEATURES
- hand icons instead of text
- when someone wins show inline instead of text below
- Allow players to configure a games of stay 5, so after someone gets 5, record it in scoreboard (So after 1st win, set T: 0/5, H: 0/3 to T: 1/0, H: 0/0 ) and reset score to 0 and show banner that T won this game.
MORE GAME IDEAS
- POKER
- Indian Poker (Teen Patti)
- Karran
- Yahtzee: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2243/yahtzee
- Bridge
- Blackjack
- UNO
- Go Fish
- Spades/Bridge (decide how many hands you can win and then color and then win 'em. High card in each round wins. Color trumps all)
- some puzzle game with players challenging each other or pull Qs from open source rest endpoint and play in real time with with first to answer as winner
- googlefeud etc. game try to embed
ISSUES
