Final Project: A Text Adventure Game

Objectives

During this activity, students should be able to:

Build a web application employing architectural and design patterns, and using these technologies: Ruby, Sinatra, Sequel and SQLite.

This activity helps students develop the following skills, values and attitudes: ability to analyze and synthesize, capacity for identifying and solving problems, and efficient use of computer systems.

Activity Description

This project can be developed in teams of up to four people.

Design and write a Ruby web application that allows playing the revised and improved version of “Werewolves and Wanderer” text adventure game as explained by Tim Hartnell in the first 15 chapters of his 1983 book entitled: “Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer”.

Requirements

The application must support multiple simultaneous independent players. The states of all the players must be stored in a SQLite database.
The application must be developed using the Sinatra DSL using the Model–View–Controller (MVC) architectural pattern.
The models must be implemented using the Sequel database toolkit.
The user interface must be intuitive and easy to use. If you wish, you may use a web front-end framework (such as jQuery, Bootstrap, etc.).
Every class and public method developed must be adequately documented using the rdoc utility.

All the Ruby source files must include at the top the authors' personal information (name and student id) within comments. For example:

# Final Project: A Text Adventure Game
# Date: 05-May-2016
# Authors: A00456654 Thursday Rubinstein
#          A01160611 Anthony Stark

You must also write the documentation for your application's design and architecture.

See the example in: greeter.tgz

Check the file greeter/src/README.txt to get all the indications on how to produce the documentation. This is how the final result should look: greeter/doc/index.html

The documentation must include these sections:
- General overview
- How to install and run the application
- 4+1 architectural view model
  - Logical view
  - Process view
  - Development view
  - Physical view
  - Scenarios
- Patterns used
- Acknowledgments (optional)
- References

Deliverables

Place all the contents of your project and the documentation into a tarball file called adventure.tgz. Only one person of the team needs to deliver this file.

✔ Upload Instructions

To deliver the adventure.tgz file, please provide the following information:

Request PIN

Due date is Thursday, May 5.

Evaluation

This activity will be evaluated using the following criteria:

DA	The program was plagiarized.
50%	Documentation meets all the specified requirements.
50%	Correct implementation of all the requirements.

S/W Design and Architecture