Brumball was developed during Brumhack 7.0, a 24hr hackathon that was held in November 2017. It was developed by the Dysfunctional Programmers, a team of computer science students from University of Southampton.
As Brumball was developed for a hackathon, it was very much intended to be used as a demo in a short presentation. Thus, it does not have a nice menu or start automatically. In fact, you need to press enter on the display in order to release balls. This can be changed by modifying game.js in /display.
Brumball consists of three components:
- Display
- This is responsible for displaying the game
- It handles all powerups and physics
- Each display is unique as the random numbers are different.
- Only one Display should be run per game.
- Server
- This receives all the requests from the clients
- Assigns clients to teams and handles disconnection
- Gives nice numbers to the display on the position of the paddles
- Client
- This is what the players will use on their phone to play
- Sends data to the server
The display and client simply need to be hosted statically. The server needs to be run as Java with a port accessible by both the display and clients.
We got tweeted!
Below: The game running.
We plan to fork this and develop it further. However, we will not be doing it here so that this repository documents our Hackathon.