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The Ideas...

I have always wanted to create a video game. However whenever I try to make a video game I often have no idea how or where to start. I decided to start reading this game design book by Scott Rogers called "Level Up: The Guide to Great Game Design." One of the passages that stood out to me was this:

At this point in the conversation I then tell people that games are made by
elves. All I have to do is leave a game design idea in the middle of the room
overnight and in the morning the elves have made the game.

OK, this is not entirely true.
You have to leave a good idea out for the elves to make into a game. Which
begs the question: “ Where do good ideas come from?"

I like this quote because many game ideas often sound stupid. Try these on
for size:
• A yellow creature eats dots while being chased by ghost monsters.
• A plumber jumps on the heads of mushrooms to find his girlfriend.
• A prince rebuilds stars by rolling balls of junk into bigger balls of junk.

All of those stupid - sounding ideas ended up being games that made lots
and lots of money. I guess they aren ’ t so stupid after all. To me, the lesson
is, never dismiss a game idea, even if it does sound stupid.
So, where do I get my own stupid ideas to turn into video games? The
traditional way to get an idea is to get inspired. The good news is that a
good game idea can come from anywhere.

I don't have a lot inspiration or creativity so I thought I can create an API that would generate three sentences. Then from there I can get an idea on what type of video game I can create thus the creation of LevelUp Games. I started to take this small API as a little experiment to help sharpen my developer skills. In this API I wanted to stretch my skills in TDD, Hapi.JS, documentation, and other hot tools in the web space.

Architecture

Prerequisites

• NPM (v6.14)
• Node (v13.12.0)
• NVM
• Docker

To Run

With Docker

Coming Soon!

Without Docker

1. nvm use
2. npm install
3. npm start

Roadmap

• Convert to Typescript
• Setup code coverage
• Setup ES Lint or TS Lint
• Docker
  • Create Dockerfile
  • Saved in GitHub Registry
• CI/CD
  • Setup GitHub Actions
• Create Kubernetes Configs
• Add a /documentation endpoint