DrawSketch - C09 Project Proposal

Members: Bekzod Tursunov, Weiqiang Zhang, Shuyi Qiu

• Public URL: https://drawsketch.me/
• Demo URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-lIrZije-k
• API URL: https://drawsketch.me/readme

Description

A multi user drawing game where one person draws something, while the other players try to guess what is being drawn in realtime.

Key Features by Beta

• Handle communications between connected users themselves and the backend (register, login, drawing portion)
• Be able to have multiple users connect and show correct information (who is currently connected, who is currently drawing, etc)
• Have a predefined generation set of guessable words by the users, which are set during game creation

Additional features by Final

• setup rules for the game
• Handle the guessing portion by users
• Be able to connect with facebook/twitter
• Save your drawn work locally at the end of the game

Technology used

• Socket.io for backend communication
• Framework like Angular/React for the frontend
• API for the drawable topics we can play with (Countries, Cities, Animals, etc)
• API for interacting with social media platforms to login etc.

Top 5 Challenges

• Successfully deliver the drawing user's canvas to every other user connected while having the game synchronized in realtime
• Secure application against malicious intent (cheating on the game)
• Be able to incorporate the working backend with the frontend using a new framework like Angular/React
• Have a clean UI/UX on the frontend
• Be made to work cross platform, mobile and desktop

SetUp Information

Create a file '-nogit.env' containing content for all keys:

• MONGO_URL=XXX
• JWT_SECRET=XXX
• CLIENT_ID=XXX
• CLIENT_SECRET=XXX