About

Lorong is a webapp that enables boardgames to be played online with other players. It features a chat and multiple rooms. Each room hosts 1 game at a time which users can play. An account is not required to play the game. This app is made in Meteor with minimal dependency on packages.

Features

• User and guest accounts
• Nicknames (TODO)
• Game rooms (WIP)
• Chat
• Online versions of boardgames (TODO)
• Admin (TODO)

Install

Requires lodash as NPM dependency

Do meteor npm install lodash

Notes

• Continue using moment from atmosphere package instead of NPM, @peonmodel had some issues with ES6 import for momentjs
• If any package is used, most often the most popular package is preferred.
• Bug reports and Pull Requests are welcome

TODO:

• Setup players collection with temp names

• Setup CRON job to clear collections

• Accounts:

• Allow guest accounts to change name

• Create Guest account with user set name

• Pop-up for login/guest login/register for optional email etc

• Find a way to check for connected(active/idle) and disconnected users

• UI:

• Greyed out disable buttons (@Anima-t3d)

• Chatbox should have overflow textarea/div to avoid lengthening the screen

• Chat

• webRTC (@peonmodel)

• Games

• Add game in main app

• Separate game into package

• Game schema should have teams & players & room

• Create generic game parent class (@peonmodel)

• Players

• Create Players collection

• CodeNames-specific

• Add show/hide words

• Replace words during setup

Currently doing:

• Create Room, Chat, Players, with unique temp names, host, host powers, room name
• Can select game after joining room, each room only 1 game, show the selected game for each room
• Players can choose a nickname for each game, is not limited to username, required feature for certain games to be played