Inspiration
After the success of the original AchimQuest at HackTheMidlands, we were eager to expand the Achim universe. After brainstorming several ideas we eventually settled on a Bomberman-style game featuring our favourite maths lecturer.
What it does
Much like Bomberman, in the game you control one of several Achims around an arena, dropping bombs (in the shape of Martin Escardo) to destroy enemies and walls. The game is controlled by the players' phones (by accessing a control pad on a server) while the game arena is displayed on the main screen.
How we built it
The main game is built using node.js, and the server-phone communication is handled using socket.io (unfortunately Pusher proved inadequate for our purpose).
Challenges we ran into
We initially tried to use Pusher to handle our server-phone communication, however this proved impossible for real-time events that we were aiming for. Another main problem was communicating the location of walls from the server to the main map.
Accomplishments
We are proud of the ability to use phones as controllers - this is kind of cool.
What we learned
This was the first time George had used JavaScript, so this was a good opportunity to develop his skills.
What's next
If we were to continue we could develop the multiplayer aspect further.
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