Developing a Text-based Choose Your Own Adventure Style Mobile Game

Why&How ?

👋 Actually, I'm trying to improve myself in the front-end field. Still, I don't find it enjoyable or logical to constantly create websites like an agency and fill my portfolio with them. That's why I was looking for a project that I would enjoy and that would allow me to continue learning in my field. 🤔 While thinking about what to do, I came up with the idea of developing a mobile game 🎮 as I always admired game development and mobile app development. However, the idea of leaving JavaScript aside and starting to learn Swift before even starting my professional career was daunting to me. That's when I asked myself why I hadn't tried React-Native yet. 🤔 After a quick research 🔍 I decided that I wouldn't have any problems focusing on React-Native, as I already had an idea about React, and I could proceed smoothly with the amazing website of Expo. 🚀 After overcoming the decision-making stage, I decided to think more about the game in detail. What I have written below summarizes this process. 📝

Sketch

💭 It's time to put the application I envisioned on paper. Brainstorming about the game will be easier if I can develop a general template. So I will try to create the game's main screen in Figma to drill down into more details with the result.

👀 Here is the basic structure I have in mind. It consists of two containers: the first includes a title and a brief description supporting the game and the story 📖 In contrast, the second one represents each chapter with books. The empty space I left at the bottom is purely tactical, as I am not sure how many chapters(stories) there will be over time or if there will be any footer. Therefore, I haven't filled that space with anything yet.

Backend

👨‍💻 With this project, I want to learn more about the backend and explore new things in this field, so I will try to solve backend tasks with primitive and manual methods as much as possible (hopefully, I'll refactor as I learn!). Anyway, let's get back to the application. We have a book representing each chapter, with a title and a brief description. Also, each book has a story (content) not currently visible on the homepage. Considering all of these, I have an idea. I need an API, a database (MongoDB) for the API data, and a server (Vercel) to deploy the API.

Tech&Dependency
After brainstorming 🧠 on the basics, I want to write about what technologies and packages 📦 I will use. First of all, I will definitely use React-Native, Expo, and NodeJS. In addition to these, I will use Mongoose and Express packages for the backend. Things get a bit complicated on the RN and Expo side, and I am still at the beginning of the project, so I want to share my package.json file with you. 😵‍💫

End of Chapter

For now, I want to leave it here. Please stay tuned for my next blog post for more updates. 😉

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