PANIC TYCOON

A game based on software engineering for the Trinity College Dublin 4th year CS4098 Programming Group Project module.

Prerequisites

• node.js 0.10+ must be installed
• A modern browser (IE 9+, Chrome 16+, Firefox 10+, Safari 5+, Opera 11.6+)
  • Some issues regarding HTML5 audio are making the testling image above render incorrectly.

Installing Node.js 0.10

• Clone the latest version of the node version manager (nvm) from https://github.com/creationix/nvm using:

   git clone https://github.com/creationix/nvm ~/.nvm
  

• Source the nvm.sh script using

   source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
  

• Optionally: Add source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh to the file ~/.bash_profile to repeat this step when creating new shells (otherwise this will require a manual intervention)

• Switch to node 0.10 using nvm install 0.10

Installation and Running

From root of project:

• Run npm install in root directory to fetch dependencies
• Run npm test in root directory to run unit tests if desired.
• Run npm start in root directory to launch web server.

Installation Problems

If you experience installation problems, a goof plan is to remove the node_modules directory and do npm install again.

Features

• #17 Master Config Loader
  • Configuration is loaded from a series of .json files in the config folder. View Config File Specifications below for more information.
• #9 Process Simulator
  • Simulates advancement of modules in individual chunks.
  • Scales by number of developers in a city.
  • Progress is dependant on high Morale, and the base productivity of that city.
• #6 Status Display
  • Each city on the map will be either {Green, Yellow, Red} depending on if it is {on target, falling behind or making no progress} respectively.
• #20 Default Scenarios
  • Scenarios are specified in projects.json.
• #14 End of Game Report
  • Shows Graphs of how you have progressed throughout the game.
  • Compares data from beginning to end of project life-cycle.
  • Gives information as percentages of estimated successful values.
• #5 Nominal Schedule Calculator
  • The Nominal Schedule is calculated from the projects.json file, at the beginning of every game. Estimated values are provided, and then compared against in the End Game Report.
• #3 Game Score Calculator
  • This is calculated based on the revenue field in projects.json for each project. You can manually edit these files to alter the amount of expected revenue. The calculation is project.revenue.amount * project.revenue.months ± project.revenue.amount*(timetaken-project.duration). Revenue increases if released early, and decreased if released late.
• #8 Module Completion Calculator
  • This is calculated once on project selection. Each module gets ± 0-25% to it's base cost. This is not displayed to the player.
• #4 Module Location Interface
  • Module location is specified on the game map by placing teams in cities.
• #7 Inquiry Interface
  • Click on a City to get inquiry possibilities for that city.
• #1 Clickable Maps
  • A world map is loaded from the jvectormap library. It has selectable regions and offers a list of all the regions which have been selected.
  • Each city gives some basic city information such as {Cost per Developer, Morale, Productivity} during team selection phase. While the game is running, however, clicking on a city will give you access to the inquiry interface for that city.
• #23 Basic & Enhanced Problem Set
  • Events are loaded from the events.json config file, and fed through the fuzzy inference event generator.
  • Generates events based on fuzzy logic. Each variable is divided into a list of options. For example the money variable is divided into small,medium,large so when money is $10,000 it will be 60% small and 30% medium and 0% large. We then use rules to determine which event should fire.
  • Each rule specifies which option(s) it chooses for each variable so eg when money=medium then fire rule 2. We then generate a weight for this rule based on which option is applied the least. We use this value to make a weighted list of all possible rules we can fire. We then execute one of the rules based on a random number.
• #16 Intervention Interface
  • Click on the interventions button to get all the intervention possibilities. May affect morale, progress, cash, Cultural Distance, Geographic Distance.
• #33 One time interventions
  • Click on the interventions button to get all the possible interventions,. These interventions are configurable in interventions.json. May affect morale, progress, cash, Cultural Distance, Geographic Distance.
• #32 Motivational Interventions
  • Click on the interventions button to get all the intervention possibilities. These interventions are configurable in interventions.json. May affect morale, progress, cash, Cultural Distance, Geographic Distance.
• #41 Configurable Membership functions
  • Fuzzy logic membership functions configurable through client-config.json.
• #9: Waterfall Process simulator
  • On project selection, choose between Waterfall, or Agile as your development philosophy. In Waterfall mode, all modules must reach the end of one stage before progressing to the next.

Config File Specifications

Note: All config files are available in the config folder.
All JSON key's should be in "lowerCamelCase"

cities.json

Specifies the cities that can have developers allocated to them during the simulation.

• Object must contain a field "cities", which is a list of objects of the form

	{
		"coords": [Number, Number],
		"name": String,
		"morale": Number,
		"productivity": Number,
		"costPerWeek": Number
	}

• coords is a latitude/longitude pair that describes the position of the city on the in game map.
• name is the name of the city to display on tooltips, etc.
• productivity represents the number of points of progress a developer at the given site will accomplish per in game tick.
• costPerWeek represents the quantity of cash that will be deducted per in game tick per developer at this site.
• morale is not yet used but will be displayed on the city tooltip when choosing to allocate developers to sites.

client-config.json

Specifies constants that control client behaviour during the simulation.

{
	"information": String,
	"eventRate": Number,
    "timerDuration": Number
    "moraleFuzzification":[
    	{
    		"option":string,
    		"values":[Number,Number,Number]
    	},
    	{
    		"option":string,
    		"values":[Number,Number,Number]
    	},
    ],
    "completionFuzzification":[
    	{
    		"option":string,
    		"values":[Number,Number,Number]
    	},
    	{
    		"option":string,
    		"values":[Number,Number,Number]
    	},
    ],
    "payFuzzification":[
    	{
    		"option":string,
    		"values":[Number,Number,Number]
    	},
    	{
    		"option":string,
    		"values":[Number,Number,Number]
    	},
    ],

}

• information: Instructions shown on first launch in a browser. Accessible in pause menu.
• eventRate: The percentage rate of fire for events.
• timerDuration: The amount of time in milliseconds between updates in the game. moraleFuzzification: The fuzzyfied values to be used in the event generator. Here you can defiine every option you want to use in the conditions variable in events.json.
• 'option' * is just a name to use to identify which values you want to use in events.json
• 'values' * is the triangular membership value you want to use for that option. So you first specifiy what the cut off point for the lowest possible value to be considered that option, the second value specifies what number would be considered '100%' for that option and then thrid option is the highest possible value you could have before you would not consider it to be that option. It's easier to reason about if you consider an options like low, medium and high.

events.json

Specifies events which can be fired depending on eventRate and fuzzy logic engine.

• Array of event objects of the form:

[
	{
		"conditions": {
			"morale": [
				String,
				String
			],
			"pay": [
				String
			]
		},
		"message": String,
		"effects": {
			"money": Number,
			"stall": Number,
			"morale": Number,
			"progress": Number
		},
		"actions": [
			{
				"message": String,
				"effects": {
					"money": Number,
					"stall": Number,
					"morale": Number,
					"progress": Number,
				}
			}
		]
	}
]

• conditions: A list of conditions for the fuzzy logic engine, which must be satisfied in order for the event to fire. Can be empty {}.
• (optional) morale: The fuzzy logic parameter conditions for morale
• (optional) pay: The fuzzy logic parameter conditions for pay
• message: The text describing the event which occurred.
• effects: An object of repercussions common to all actions. Can currently be one of {money, stall,morale,progress}. Can be empty {}.
• (optional) money: A change in overall bank balance.
• (optional) stall: A halt in production for Number weeks.
• (optional) morale: A change in morale.
• (optional) progress: A change in progress.
• actions: An array of resolutions each with a message and effects.
• message: The text describing the resolution.
• effects: An object of repercussions for this action. Can currently be one of {money, stall,morale,progress}. Can be empty {}.

interventions.json

Specifies interventions which can be manually made during gameplay.

• Event object of the form:

{
	"message": String,
	"effects": {
		"money": Number,
		"stall": Number,
		"morale": Number,
		"progress": Number
	},
	"actions": [
		{
			"message": String,
			"effects": {
				"money": Number,
				"stall": Number,
				"morale": Number,
				"culture": Number,
				"distance": Number,
			}
		}
	]
}

• message: The text describing the interventions which can be applied.
• effects: An object of repercussions common to all actions. Can currently be one of {money, stall,morale,progress}. Can be empty {}.
• (optional) money: A change in overall bank balance.
• (optional) stall: A halt in production for Number weeks.
• (optional) morale: A change in morale.
• (optional) culture: A modifier for Cultural Distance.
• (optional) distance: A modifier for Geographic Distance.
• actions: An array of resolutions each with a message and effects.
• message: The text describing the resolution.
• effects: An object of repercussions for this action. Can currently be one of {money, stall,morale,progress}. Can be empty {}.

projects.json

Specifies projects that can be chosen including modules, costs, etc.

• Object must contain a field "projects", which is a list of objects of the form:

{
	"name": String,
	"budget": Number,
	"eventRate`: Number,
	"duration": Number,
	"revenue": {
		"months": Number,
		"amount": Number
	},
	"modules": [
		{
			"name": String,
			"cost": Number
		}, ...
	],
	"dialog": String
}

• name: Project name displayed on the project selection dialog
• budget: The amount of money available in the project
• (optional) eventRate: The percentage rate of fire for events. Overrides default
• duration: Time until project is due
• revenue: Named pair of
  • months: The number of months of revenue added to the end game score of a project completed on time
  • amount: The amount of revenue per month
• modules: A list of named pairs of
  • name: The module name to display on in game dialogs
  • cost: The "productivity cost" required to complete the module
• dialog: The text to display on the project selection screen when viewing this project

server-config.json

Specifies constants that control server behaviour.

• port: The port to listen for incoming connections on

Tests

This project uses travis and testling to automate testing and ensure front-end compatibility and positive build-state on the backend.

To run manual tests run npm test from the project root directory.

To run maunal front-end specific tests, an external tool testling can be installed using npm install -g testling (may require sudo). The testling tests can be run as follows:

• testling -u in the project's root directory.
• It will give out a localhost URL.
  • copy the url and load it in a webpage using any browser
• Back in the console the tests will be run.

Test Coverage

To see the code coverage of the current test suite an external tool, covert, can be installed using npm install -g covert (may require sudo).

With covert, simply run covert ./tests/*.js to see percentage code coverage for the full suite, or specify a specific file or files for narrower results.