Neutrynos - DroneWars

Neutrynos - DroneWars is a browser game, online and multiplayer, where you have to conquer the galaxy by coding.

License

Copyright Loïc HAMOT, 2018

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.

See ./LICENSE_1_0.txt or http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt

Requirements

For the C++ backend

• C++ >= c++11 (tested with Visual Studio and gcc)
• boost >= 1.53
• poco.data >= 1.6.1
• lua 5.2
• thrift (for C++ and python) >= 0.9.1

For the python (web) frontend

• Python >= 2.7
• django
• google.blockly
• bootstrap

Other

• A MySQL database

How to install it?

For the backend

• Install and compile all dependencies
• Use cmake to compile DroneWars
• Create a user and a database for it in the MySQL database
• Add a dronewars.ini file of this form:

host = localhost
port = 3306
database = dronewars
user = dronewars
password = ???????????
min_round = 10

For the frontend

• Add the "DRONEWARSPATH/src" path in the PYTHONPATH
• Launch it by the frontend/runserver.sh(or bat) script
• The HTTP server is by default on the port 81.

Future of the project?

• Improve the game accessibility
  • Better tutorial
  • More and better messages about code result
  • Better representation of the empire
• Improve the backend efficiency

Main missing features are:

• Fleet fight scripting