Play with your friends ❤️
Decknamen is an online version of Codenames, a board game created by Vlaada Chvátil. If you enjoy playing this, buy the original, it's even more fun to play this around a table with snacks and friends.
Inspired by @jbowens/codenames, which can be found online at horsepaste.com. I wanted to do my own version with slightly different features and ways to play and I wanted to have a small project to test out technologies. I adopted the word lists found there to have a starting point but changed a few terms that didn't work for me and my testers.
The spy icon was created by Adrien Coquet of the Noun Project.
This project uses a websocket and http backend based on Primus and Node.js. See the api folder for details. To
organize everything, this repository uses Yarn workspaces (for now). Given that the API part
could easily power any game, it might get extracted into its own repository at some point.
The website itself is powered by Ember.js & a bunch of addons. The project is inside the game
folder.
This public version runs on a free tier of Heroku and its Redis Addon and is hosted on Vercel, both of which are quite excellent and made deploying this a bliss.
To run the project locally, you will need to create a .env file in the root of this project, containing a single
configuration option:
REDIS_URL=redis://…
You can either run Redis locally on your machine or use connection URL provided by Heroku, it will work locally as well.
Feedback and work is always welcome. Keep in mind I'm doing this for free and to be able to play with the friends and family we currently can't visit in person. Take care.
Licensed under gpl-3.0