Series of Unfortunate Misclicks

Inspiration

Coffee. Old friends and a good book.

What it does

Allows user to play through an intense and wildly varied choose your own adventure game.

How we built it

The Authors on our team created a multi-arc choose your own adventure story. A C program was developed as part of the same project to generate template files for the authors to fill. A second C program was developed to facilitate progression through the adventure story by parsing the files and reacting based off of character queues and user responses. The C program is hosted on a Google Cloud Platform Debian Linux VM and is interacted with via an SSH terminal connection. The SSH terminal connection is interacted with via a web terminal embedded in an iFrame in a custom made HTML website. This website is hosted by Domains.com.

Challenges we ran into

Dynamically reading in an unknown-sized line from a file. Content curation was more complicated than anticipated. Learning how to work in the Google Cloud Platform was hard as this was our first experience.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

No one was sacrificed for this project's completion. Being able to incorporate the Google Cloud Platform, a hosted domain, remote utilities, embedded terminal, remote Linux VM all on one project with success.

What we learned

How to compile and run C programs in a linux environment.

What's next for Series of Unfortunate Misclicks

The sequel!

Built With

• c
• css
• debian
• domain.com
• google-cloud
• html
• notepad
• visual-studio-community-2017