Work Adventure

Work in progress

Work Adventure is a web-based collaborative workspace for small to medium teams (2-100 people) presented in the form of a 16-bit video game.

In Work Adventure, you can move around your office and talk to your colleagues (using a video-chat feature that is triggered when you move next to a colleague).

Getting started

Install Docker.

Run:

docker-compose up

The environment will start.

You should now be able to browse to http://workadventure.localhost/ and see the application.

Note: on some OSes, you will need to add this line to your /etc/hosts file:

/etc/hosts

workadventure.localhost 127.0.0.1

Designing a map

If you want to design your own map, you can use Tiled.

A few things to notice:

• your map can have as many layers as your want
• your map MUST contain a layer named "floorLayer" of type "objectgroup" that represents the layer on which characters will be drawn.
• the tilesets in your map MUST be embedded. You can refer to an external typeset in a TSX file. Click the "embed tileset" button in the tileset tab to embed tileset data.
• your map MUST be exported in JSON format. You need to use a recent version of Tiled to get JSON format export (1.3+)

If you have exit scene

• You must create layer "exit". The layer have cases where the gamer can switch to the next scene.
• In layer properties, you must add "exitSceneUrl" property. It represents a url map of the next scene For exemple : /<map folder>/<map>.json. Be careful, if you want that the next map will be correctly loaded, you must check that the map files are in folder back/src/Assets/Maps/<your map folder>. The files will be accessible by url <HOST>/map/files/<your map folder>/....

MacOS developers, your environment with Vagrant

If you are using MacOS, you can increase Docker performance using Vagrant. If you want more explanations, you can read this medium article.

Prerequisites

• VirtualBox* 5.x Latest version https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
• Vagrant 2.2.7 Latest version https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

First steps

Create a config file Vagrantfile from Vagrantfile.template

cp Vagrantfile.template Vagrantfile

In Vagrantfile, update VM_HOST_PATH with the local project path of your machine.

#VM_HOST_PATH# => your local machine path to the project

(run pwd and copy the path in this variable)

To start your VM Vagrant, run:

Vagrant up

To connect to your VM, run:

Vagrant ssh

To start project environment, run

docker-compose up

You environment runs in you VM Vagrant. When you want stop your VM, you can run:

Vagrant halt

If you want to destroy, you can run

Vagrant destroy

Available commands

• Vagrant up: start your VM Vagrant.
• Vagrant reload: reload your VM Vagrant when you change Vagrantfile.
• Vagrant ssh: connect on your VM Vagrant.
• Vagrant halt: stop your VM Vagrant.
• Vagrant destroy: delete your VM Vagrant.

Features developed

You have more details of features developed in back README.md.