Idle Capitalist

Features

• ✅ Buy Business.
• ✅ Multiple Business to choose
• ✅ Upgrade Business.
• ✅ Manage orders.
• ✅ Hire Managers.
• ✅ Managers automatically manage orders.
• ✅ Your businesses make money for you while you are out, even if the server is down or the websocket is disconnected.
• ✅ Websocket reconnection.

Getting Started 🎉

• Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/RSginer/idle-capitalist.git

Docker

• Build images.

cd idle-capitalist
docker-compose build

• Run the containers.

docker-compose up

• Go to http://localhost:3000 🤘

npm

• This option needs Node.js v12.16.1 installed and a MongoDB instance running on your localhost

Start Server

• Install dependencies

cd idle-capitalist/server
npm install

• Start the server

npm run start

• Start the server in development mode

npm run start:dev

Start Client

• Install dependencies

cd idle-capitalist/client
npm install

• Start Webapp

npm run start

• Go to http://localhost:3000 🤘

👨‍💻 Technical things

This game uses two compatible architecture patterns, a common onion architecture with a simplified version of CQRS pattern.

Workflow: Web browser -> React Component -> Dispatch Redux Action -> Redux Saga Catch -> Websocket Emmit -> Server Websocket -> Controller -> CQRS Exec Command -> Service -> Repository -> Database.

Initial game state is fetched from an REST API GET /api/v1/game/initialGameState.

Client and server communicates their commands throght a websocket.

Client

Client is a React-Redux webapp, with Redux-Saga, so is a implementation of the flux pattern. It's also ready to use with Redux-DevTools

Server

Server is a Node.js with Express server.

Database

Server uses a MongoDB database.

Game Model Schema

This Model is used to store the game data.

Game: {
  totalCashAmount: Number,
  businesses: [Business],
  lastEventDateInMs: Number
}

Business Model Schema

This Model is used to store the businesses data for each Game

Business: {
  businessKey: String,
  level: Number,
  manager: Boolean,
  lastOrderStarted: Number
}

Maths

• Calculating expand business cost.

• Calculating business revenue per second

• 👨🏻‍💼 Managers price is fixed depends on the business:

  • Lemonade Stand: $1,000
  • Newspaper Delivery: $15,000
  • Car Wash: $100,000
  • Pizza Delivery: $500,000
  • Donut Shop: $1,200,000

• Initial values

• 👨🏻‍🎓📚 Bibliography: https://blog.kongregate.com/the-math-of-idle-games-part-i/