Setup

THE AAA top tier game for Bubba and Leah

Setup Steps:

1. install npm: (NodeJS)

2. install meteor: $ npm install -g meteor

   • Note: Users have reported issues with installing meteor through npm. If this occurs, please use the legacy installation instructions.

3. clone repository

4. Connect to development database. Please contact devs for mongo uri

   • MacOS/Linux, run the following command and skip step 5.

     $ MONGO_URL=<mongourl> meteor
     

   • Windows. run the following command and continue to step 5.

     $ set MONGO_URL=<mongourl>
     

5. Within repository directory, run initial meteor app setup: $ meteor

6. The final message should be:

   $ meteor
   [[[[[ <Path to Repository>\alieyen-blaster ]]]]]
   
   ....
   
   => Started proxy.
   => Started HMR server.
   => Started MongoDB.
   => Started your app.
   
   => App running at: http://localhost:3000/
   Type Control-C twice to stop.
   

   You can access the website at localhost:3000 to play the game!

Running After Setup

The above setup details how to install all required components and connect the MongoDB for a first time run. It's important to note that the MongoDB URL should be connected before each subsequent run of the server in a new terminal. As such, your command for running the server in the dev environment would be:

MacOS/Linux

$ MONGO_URL=<mongourl> meteor

Windows

$ set MONGO_URL=<mongourl>

Optional Run scripts are provided per OS which you can use at your disgretion.

Note: You must also update the scripts with the provided MongoURL for them to work.

Filenames: run.bat and run.sh

Quick FYI

Due to new browser security measures, the user is required to interact with a page before any audio can be played. As such, TTS in the starting screen (past the loading page) will not play until after you register a mousedown event on the page.

Because of this, we request that you please click somewhere on the screen during the loading page so that TTS fires at the appropriate time :)

Help

Missing Packages

• when running $ meteor you may get notified for any extra packages you need to update. Please prepend meteor to all of these commands.
• Ex: npm install @babel/runtime becomes meteor npm install @babel/runtime

Meteor is not a Recognized Command

• If you get the following error or similar when running $ meteor

  $  'meteor' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
  operable program or batch file.
  

• On Mac: please make sure that the path your nodejs libraries are installed at (npm root -g) is added to the paths file /etc/paths
• On Windows: please reinstall nodejs and assert that it adds the correct paths when you install meteor. If this doesn't work, please try cloning the repo on a CAEN computer.