2BitBlaster

2-Bit Blaster written in TypeScript

The history of this game is that it originally started off written in JavaScript as part of a personal goal to learn more about JavaScript, gulp and Browerserify, and also to fulfill a long-held goal of writing a classic arcade shoot'em up style game. When the XBox One was initially opened to individual developers, I stopped working on that project and decided to entirely rewrite it in C# to run as a UWP application. Then came my desire to learn more about TypeScript and Webpack, and so I went back to the original JavaScript version to port it, and this is the result. It's been a fun learning experience with all of the technologies that have been involved!

This is a work in progress... <br> <br>

<img src=/docs/screenshot.jpg width=800/> <br>

Latest build hosted at https://2bitblaster.blinkenlights.org <br> <br>

Building and Running Locally

How to Run Locally

cd 2BitBlaster

npm install
npm run build
npm run test (optional)
npm run lint (optional)

cd host
node app.js

Now visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser!

Cloud Deployment

This project uses GitHub Actions to deploy to AWS using Pulumi. The following diagram depicts deployed stack.

As depicted, all of the static files related to the site are hosted from an S3 bucket. High scores are managed by an AWS Lambda function which maintains the high score as a parameter value in Parameter Store, and is triggered via an HTTP API Gateway. Both the static site and high score endpoint are exposed as origins defined in a CloudFront CDN.