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Village Makeover — Isometric City-Builder

Village Makeover is an isometric city-building web game developed in 2013 with a distributed team of remote developers. Players place and upgrade community buildings, manage resources, and grow a thriving village from scratch.

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Features

An isometric web simulation game where players construct and manage a community — built in 2013 with a remote team of developers.

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Isometric World

A fully tile-mapped isometric grid with dozens of building types and terrain features.

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Resource Management

Manage food, materials, and population happiness to grow your village sustainably.

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Remote Team Built

Developed collaboratively with a distributed team — an early experiment in async remote development.

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Sprite Art

Custom isometric sprite art created specifically for the game.

Documentation & Architecture

Spreadsheets and App Script

Duplicate all of the spreadsheets and app script
Put docids into the settings spreadsheet

config.yaml

For service account credentials: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials?project=[your-project-name]

Create new service account
Download JSON and copy/paste values into config.yaml
Share all of the spreadsheets with service account Email address

Create config.yaml:


spreadsheet:
  config_docid: "config-spreadsheet-docid"
  private_key_id: "values-from-google-developer-service-account"
  private_key: "values-from-google-developer-service-account"
  client_email: "values-from-google-developer-service-account"
  client_id: "values-from-google-developer-service-account"
  type: "service_account"

Deployment

Install pip and virtualenv. For example, on MacOSX:

sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv

Clone full version of IGE to ige directory.

Install Node.js and then IGE deps via NPM:

cd ige/server
npm install

Deploy:

./upload.sh

Google APIs

Enable the following APIs:

To see the list of the enabled Google APIs: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/enabled?project=[your-project-name]

OAuth 2.0

For OAuth2 2.0 credentials: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials?project=[your-project-name]

Create new OAuth client ID
Application type: Web application
Authorized JavaScript origins: Deployment or development URL
Authorized redirect URIs: Deployment or development URL Download JSON and copy/paste values into config spreadsheet

App Script

Go to Resources -> Developers Console Project… and enter your project number
Go to Publish -> Deploy as API Executable select a version select Anyone and hit Update.
Go to Publish -> Deploy as API Executable and copy Current API ID and paste it into appsScriptID property of the settings sheet

Important Settings

Consider updating:

editorGroupEmail
loginGroupEmail
driveFolderID
all of the spreadsheet and app script docids

Helper Routes

/config/scan -> Lists files containing config keys if found.
/config/scan/<config_key> -> Lists file containing this key if found.
/cache/flush -> Removes caches for all items.
/cache/flush/<cache_id> -> Removes cache for the given id. List of ids: config assets earnings goalsdata goalstasks goalssettings catalog