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Pirate Rush

Idle-clicker game in the theme of One Piece! Do you want to become the pirate king? Recruit and upgrade your pirate crew, fight dangerous foes, and conquer the seas!

Play now on: https://pirate-rush.onrender.com/

Notes

Challenges

The core gameplay involves players clicking rapidly on a boss character to inflict damage. Managing this interaction in a React-Redux setup presents unique challenges, especially due to the high frequency of actions and the necessity to maintain responsive and accurate game state updates. A key concern is the efficiency of updating the boss's health; making an API call to update the boss's health data in Mongo with every click would be impractical and inefficient.

To address this, I decided to keep track of the boss's health on the front end to reduce API calls. This system ensures that the game's performance remains optimal, even as players interact with the game rapidly.

I encountered another bug where the recruit pirate component was re-rendering unnecessarily, as it fetched the Player data every time the crew changed, not just after form submission. This caused re-renders after each pirate upgrade, which was both unoptimized and functionally problematic. I resolved the issue by adjusting the logic to fetch the Player data only when necessary, such as during form submission or when moving a player to the bench.

Progress

Milestone 5

v3.3

  • Implement Boss fight logic.

v3.2

  • Add more member card UI improvements.

v3.1

  • Add more UI improvements and upgrade the character level-up feature to increase stats and max level.

v3.0

  • Updated UI and revamped the pirate input form to fetch from an existing pool of pirates to be unlocked.

Milestone 4

v2.2

  • Connect the backend to MongoDB. Use Mongoose schema and add more member fields. Add functionality to upgrade crew with monetary resources (Berries).

Milestone 3

v2.1

  • Implement backend via Node.js and express. Added member upgrade feature.

Milestone 2

v2.0

  • Recreate assignment 1 using React and Redux. Add a new feature to select a member to show a detailed view.

Milestone 1

v1.0

  • Using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, build a website to create teams via filling forms and displaying them as a list.

References

The project uses image URLs from: https://optc-db.github.io/