The Great Escape

The Great Escape is an in-browser location based online multiplayer game. The game cannot be played singleplayer; it requires a group of people to be in the same area.
One player starts a new game and sends out invites to others to join his game. The game can be started when all players have joined and are ready to play.
One of the players is the fugitive, just escaped from prison, trying to get to an extraction point while gathering enough money to leave the area. The other players are cops hunting down the fugitive.

Screenshots

Starts by loading, checking and verifying	Players need to enter a name	Pick location for a new game
Items will be placed at random	Invite other players	Start game when everyone is ready
The fugitive will be given a head start	The hunters can pick up bullets in order to shoot	The fugitive can pick up tools and rob some venues
Once the fugitive is shot the game is over

Technical

The game is an in-browser (JavaScript) game, running on the client. It connects to a Firebase Realtime Database in order to share the data between all clients.
Before the game starts it checks the client for location access and notifications.

Setup

1. Make sure you've installed Node.js (including NPM) and the Firebase CLI tools (npm install -g firebase-tools)
2. Open up the Firebase console and create a new project
3. In the project go to Authentication, Set up sign-in method and enable Anonymous
4. Clone this repository to your local drive
5. Open up a terminal (a.k.a. command prompt) on your workstation and navigate to the cloned repository directory
6. Initialize a Firebase project:
   • firebase init
   • Enable the Database and the Hosting
   • Set the just created project as the default
   • Set database.rules.json as Database rules, don't overwrite
   • Set pages as the public hosting directory, it's a single page app, don't overwrite pages/index.html
7. Download /__/firebase/init.js from your firebase project url (*.firebaseapp.com) and save it in the root directory as firebase.init.js
8. Install all required node modules: npm install
9. Run a development or production build: npm run build:dev or npm run build:prod
10. Push the database and its rules to the server: npm run push:db
11. Push the static content to the server: npm run push:pages

Contributing

If you found a bug, got an idea for an improvement or some other comment, please feel free to open up an issue on the issues page.
It would be even better if you would fix the bug or create the improvement yourself and share your changes by means of a pull request.
Just fork this repository, clone it to your local workstation, create a new branch, make the changes, push it and create a pull request.
The issues are mirrored on a Kanban board as well!

Thanks

None of this would possible without the generosity of various creators of free content:

• Game-icons.net
• Material Design
• Caroline Keyzor on FREEIMAGES
• Webpack
• jQuery
• Google Maps
• Modernizr
• Bowser
• Push
• Computer Sleep
• jQuery Fullscreen Plugin
• Slip.js
• Firebase (Spark Plan)
• And probably some more...