An arcade puzzle game created in JS using React / Redux.
🎥 Featured in a lighting talk at the 2017 dotJS Conference in Paris.
Note: This was originally coded in 2016 and there have been a lot of new developments in JavaScript, React, and Redux since then. I gave the project a very basic update in 2022 (since it wasn't compiling for me anymore) but the code remains mostly unchanged.
This game is open-source, free, and just for funsies!
👉 Play Now! 🎮 📺
After watching Meth Meth Method's video I was inspired to create a similar game for the following reasons:
- To try my hand at making a game using functional programming methodologies.
- To try out some JS tools that I hadn't used before
- I thought it would be fun to make up crazy custom shapes and/or game modes.
Some of the tools I used:
- redux for state management
- reselect for memoized selectors
- react for component rendering
- Ducks for module organization
- AVA for unit tests and nyc for code coverage
- lodash for numerous utility functions
- random-seed to create a deterministic game mode (where every game is the same order of pieces)
- pressed for detecting key presses in update loop (I created this library for this project)
- babel, webpack, standard (code style)
- ES6
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Left, A | Left |
| Right, D | Right |
| Down, S | Down |
| Shift, Up | Rotate Right |
| Z, / | Rotate Left |
| Enter | Pause / Restart Game |
| M | Mute / Unmute music |