Happy Harvesters Apple Orchard Game

Are you between the ages of 3 months and 300 years old? Are you tired of Candy Crush? Angry Birds? Or even Sudoku? Well, then why not try Happy Harvesters, an apple orchard game you can either play right in your browser or downloaded to your phone! In this free-to-play game, you can start an apple orchard and watch your hobby flourish into a multi-product business endeavor!

And maybe YOU can become richer than Steve Jobs with your apples!

Table of Contents

• Game Description
• User Story
• Screenshot
• Screenshot of Game
• Live Deployment
• Tools, Technologies, Languages
• Credits
• Installation and Usage
• Contributing
• Questions

Game Description

This is a grow-your-own apple orchard simulator app game. Grow your own apple tree, sell apples, and make money! Use your hard earned profits to buy more trees. With money, you can make additional apple-based products (apple juice, apple sauce, and apple pies) to sell for even more money! Earn a high score dependant on how much money you earn from your apple endeavors.

User Story

• As a grade-school child, I am looking for a fun game I can play on the internet SO THAT I can be entertained and learn about running a make-believe apple business.

• As a parent, I want a browser-based computer game that is family friendly and easy to play SO THAT my kid can have some free time and stay safe on the web.

• As a person on the move, I want a multi-platform game SO THAT I can play no matter where I am and what device I’m on.

Screenshot

Live Deployment

This application is deployed using Heroku:

• HappyHarvesters.Herokuapp.com

Tools, Technologies, Languages

• CSS
• JavaScript
• JSX
• React
• Node
• GraphQL
• Jest for testing purposes
• MongoDB, Mongoose
• Apollo
• Express.js

Credits

• FlatIcon.com: pie, juice, oven, juicer, apple sauce, masher, and barn imagery
• FontAwesome.com

Installation and Usage

To install and run this project, please follow these steps:

1. Make sure you have Node.js and MongoDB installed.
2. Through the command line, go to the folder you wish this application's folder to be in.
3. Do git clone of the repository to get the application's files.
4. To install all of the depenencies this application uses, run npm install.
5. To start the application, run npm run develop.
6. Open localhost:3001 to see the local webpage.

Contributing

Happy Harvesters is a work in progress! If you would like to contribute to this project, you can do so by:

1. Forking the project. (Learn how to fork.)
2. Creating a new feature branch, committing the changes, and pushing the branch.
3. Opening a Pull Request.

Read the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.

Questions

Happy Harvesters was made by:

• Joanne Chun / github @ jojochun
• Jennifer Cole / github @ JColeCodes
• Charlton Hua / github @ Charlton-H
• Jake Pasternak / github @ jdpasternak
• Stuart Rickard / github @ stuart-rickard
• Scott Rohrig / github @ scottrohrig
• Lex Slovik / github @ lexslo
• Eiko Ujifusa / github @ eikouji

For inquiries regarding the project, please contact any of the developers listed above, or email Jennifer Cole directly at capauldi@gmail.com.