PARTICLEQUEST

CERN Summer Student Webfest

August 5th, 2012

Contents
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ParticleQuest overview. The team. Work done. Individual contributions. Implementation results.

ParticleQuest

Open source HTML5 MMORPG Funded by Mozilla

Now BrowserQuest meets PARTICLES!

The team

Teamwork
Face2face meetings @ CERN restaurant. Skills:
x3 Computer scientists. x1 Graphic designer. x1 Physicist.

Social tools:
GitHub. Etherpad. Google+ Hangouts.

Work done

Graphics
8-bit particle sprites.

BrowserQuest map customization.

Using Tiled Map Editor. Editing tilesheets.

Interface customization
More CERN-ish.

Code
Reverse-engineered code:
Achievements. Sprite functioning.

Added:
NPC science script. Keyboard mapping.

Documented:
BrowserQuest was not supposed to be extended. Things we have learnt are now easily explained.

Physics
The LHC melted down and now, all particles are huge, mad, and really angry. You, as a Summer Student, has to find the Higgs Boson to stop this madness. Use your anti-matter weapons wisely to save the Universe in the name of Science!

Community development
The GitHub wiki.
Preparing the project for further contributions.

Extending documentation.
Easier to understand and start working!

We made Science fun!

Contributions

Andr-Pierre
Contributed
Particle Zoo. Edit pixels.

Learned:
Old school games can be useful. Editing pixels is time-consuming.

Jessy
Contributed:
Studying the code. Sprites customization. Server configuration.

Learned:
Photoshop.

Marco
Contributed:
Story script. Brainstorming.

Learned:
Lurk into the code. GIT & GitHub

Ome
Contributed
Graphic customizations. Documentation. Presentation.

Learned
Node.js GIT & GitHub. Terminal tricks (thx Jessy!).

Quentin
Contributed:
Interface customizations. Keyboard mapping. Brainstorming.

Learned:
Photoshop. Node.js

Results