Beagle Boop
Beagle Boop Game Board
An interactive multiplayer game board loosely based on the “Bop It!” and “Simon Says” game systems. Players are asked to perform a particular action through an audio prompt, e.g. moving the joystick up, pressing a button, tilting the board, etc.
My contributions were:
- Designed and implemented all online single and Multiplayer game features.
- Designed and implemented Embedded networking code. I enabled our board to communicate with our Firebase back-end and the Webapp. For detailed info on how I did this view my Firebase via CURL and JSON-C tutorial!
- Designed and implemented a web console that enables players to configure and start single or multiplayer games. The site displays the results of the last game back to the player or players.
- Designed and implemented the Firebase database instance for storing the values for starting a game, parameters for configuring the game, and the results of the last game for every player.
The Inspiration and Problem
I wanted to learn more about embedded coding aswell as practice the Javascript and networking skills I
gained from my previous hackathons.
My team and I were able to use Agile methodologies to create something really fun!
The Solution
The game is configured and started through our web console hosted on GitHub Pages. The web console writes the game settings to our Firebase Realtime Database instance, from which the BBG clients are continually reading. When a value in the database indicates so, the clients begin the game.
A general representation of a board in the database
Button Sequence Wiring Schematic
Video showing game in action.
The System and Technologies
The Game is build in C and utalizes the libasound, libCurl, and JSON-C libraries.
The Web console was build with 85% JQuery and some HTML and CSS.
The Database is in JSON.
Challenges we ran into
While implementing the C code was easy, cross compiling the CURL (lcurl) and JSON-C (ljson) libraries
was an
increadably
hard task. There are no tutorials online how to do this so I spent alot of time debugging, but
eventually got it to
work!
I created a tutorial on how I did this so I, and
hopefully no one else, will ever have to go
through
that trouble again!
Acknowledgements
The main guides used where for CURL and JSON-C. Most of these guides were used as references and none were directly copied from:
GitHub Game Code
Repo