Mini Games Site

For our software design capstone at the University of Guelph, my team and I were tasked with creating a mini game website. The project was left relatively open-ended compared to previous courses, we had the freedom to choose our application stack, application design and implementation.

We decided to build a website that would host mini games. The website was built using React, Node.js, and MySQL. The website was originally deployed using Nginx.

The first game we implemented was a simple card matching game with a leaderboard. The second game implemented was a text steganography game. If the user is able to solve the puzzle by decoding various messages they will be able to access the hidden message on a unique, one-time URL. The final version also includes a pool game.

My contributions:

Design of the leaderboard page and login prompt.

Database implementation (MySQL)- for creating users, tables, storing data, retrieving data.

API Design to server

Parallelizng CI/CD testing pipeline to reduce testing time.

Ensuring correct Nginx configuations to deploy website. (bash scripts to verify configs)

Bash scripts to switch routes in files for local development and production deployment (to make it easier to switch between local and production)

Various backend code blocks related to front-end actions such as logging in, verifying ciphers, turning text to binary and zero-width characters.