I made a game for Rails devs based on a conference
Hey all, I wanted to share a fun project I have been working on. It started because I wanted the Blastoff Rails conference to have some sort of digital experience that people could do before the actual event. I have been a huge fan of the pokemon games since the 90s and a couple weeks ago I had the shower thought of making a web dev version of those games where instead of catching pokemon and battling each other you get ruby gems and battle code bugs. The maps in the game are all based off real places in Albuquerque (where the conference is taking place) and every single character in the game is based on a real person that I have talked to in the Ruby/Rails community (except for Professor Pine, I wanted him to be Professor Matz but I don't have any connection to Matz to ask his permission sadly). I am releasing it today as v1.0.0 but I plan to continue adding people (and maybe easter eggs) for at least another couple weeks. Give it a play and let me know what you think!
https://www.blastoffrails.com/
FAQ
Why didn't you write it in Ruby?
Yeah, I am a failure. It would have been way cooler to write this in Ruby (DragonRuby?) but I wanted to get this done quickly and Phaser JS made that super easy so that I could focus on the more "creative" aspects like adding people, coming up with bugs and their moves, building the maps, etc.